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680 BROADWAY. 



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THE 




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FOR THE 



CITY OF NEW YORK. 



1871-2. 



OF Qo-s 



^YRIGHT ''<.A^ 



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Zd. bij Ch3^T\€.s H-tivvivx TTescott. 



New York : 
^WM. P. CLEARY «Sc CO., Publishers, 



71 BROADWAT. 



1871. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the yearlSTl. by 

WM. P. CLEARY, & CO., 
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



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GUNS . 

BREECH LOADim AND MUZZLE LOADING 



OF EVERY VARIETY. 



English, Belgian & American Manufacture. 



AND 



Al^TERl^L for GXJisr ]VI^KERS, 

Wholesale and Retail. ^ 

177 BroadAvay, 

COOPER, HABBIS &, HODGKINS, 

F. O. Box, 393"?. 



Tlie Ainerican Honse of Antiqnes. 

In the whole of the United States there is but one house 
devoted to the exhibition and sale of Antique Furniture and 
Works of Art including rare porcelain and china and rich 
goods 6i a variety that is seldom seen in this country. To 
those who have not visited Europe, and do not possess col- 
lections of such a character, this house will be a study, the 
extent and value of the collection aftbrding flicilities which 
cannot be found elsewhere for the gratification of taste and 
curiosity. Among the various articles will be found clocks 
of the 17th and 18th centuries, carved furniture of all ages 
and nations, and the wares of the crown royal fxctories of 
Sevres and Dresden, as Avell as oil paintings and other works 
of art. Those who desire to see the collection, will receive 
courteous attention from those in attendance. 



D^iEfTES) 






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Manufacturers of French and English 





NEV^^ YORK. 

We congratulate the public in being able to furnish the finest and purest 
Toilet Soaps, equal in every respect to those of the most renowned makers of- 
France, England and Italy, at a reduction of almost half the cost of the impor- 
ted article. 

THE NATIONAL 




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OF ISTE'W YORK, 



Z lr«%iirai't tor. WmM&m Bmm^w»- 

Issues all the new forms »f policies, and presents as favorable terms as any Comptny in the United States. • 

EDWARD A. JONES, President. 
J. 0. HALSEY, Vice-President. 

J. A. MORTIMORE, Secretary. CHARLES G. PEARSON, Assistant Secretary. 

SHEPPARD HOMANS. Consulting Actuary 

CALL OR SEND FOR CIRCULAR. AGENTS WANTED.. 

VI. 



CONTENTS 



History of New York — 

Historical Localities 

General View 

New York as it is . 

Central Park — 

Origin and Early History 

Location and Area . 

Gateways and Approaches 

Monuments 

Museum 

Play Grounds 

The Mall . . . , 

The Terrace 

The Lake . 

The Ramble . 

The Upper Park 

How to Get to the Park . 

Parks and Public Squares 

Amusements — 

Academy of Music . 

Booth's Theatre . 

Fifth Avenue Theatre . 

Grand Opera House . 

Niblo's Garden 

New York Circus 

Olympic Theatre . 

Steinway Music Hall . 

Union Square Theatre 

Wallack's Theatre 

Other Places of Amusement 

Cemeteries — 

Greenwood 
Woodlawn 
Other Cemeteries 



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The New Court House .... 

" City Hall 

^' Halls of Justice .... 

U. S. Treasury and Assay Office. 
Dei.artment of Charities and Corrections 
Custom House .... 

" Merchant's Exchange . ' . 

*' Old Post-Office . 

" Astor Library . 

" New Bible House 

'• New York Historical Society . 

*• National Academy of Design 

Young Men's Christian Association 

" College of New York 
Libraries .... 
Cooper Union .... 
Odd Fellows' Hal) . . 
-Colleges . . 

Theological Institutions 
Croton Aqueduct 

High Bridge 

Forts and Fortifications 

Benevolent Institutions 

Environs of the City . 

Watering Places .... 

Post- Office Regulations 

The New Post-Office . 

Banks • . . , . 

Foreign Consuls .... 

Omnibuses and City Railways . 

Ferries . 

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Watering Place Distances 



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The most extensive stock of any establishment in the world, which they are 
oftering on the most favorable terms. 

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And Manufacturers of Patent Spring-Back Account Books, 

4B Maiden Lane, NeAv York. 

Orders solicited for anything in our line. Large assortment of Fancy and Staple Stationery, 
Account Books, Writing Paper, Hotel Registers, Time Books, Expense Books, Diaries and Daily 
Journals. 

Copt Your Letters.— Use Francis' Manifold Writer, by which letters and copies are written 
«t the same time. Price from $1 to $5. 

Merchants, Bankers, Factories. Public Offices, Railroad and Insurance Companies, as well as 
individuals, are solicited to give us their orders. Prompt and personal attention given. Prices low. 

The entire building is fitted expressly for the various branches of our business, with new and 
improved Machinery, Steam Power Presses, New Type, &c. Please call or send your orders to 

FRANCIS & LOUTREL, 

stationers, Printers, & Bookbinders, 

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Patent Composition for Printers' Inking Rollers. Does not harden, shrink, or crack. 

IX. 



PREFACE. 



The want of a proper Guide to New York, one that 
would not only indicate the names and localities of all 
places of interest, but that would also give such a. 
description of them, as Avould not fail to attract the notice 
of the stranger visiting the City, has long been felt by 
the travelling public. We have endeavored in this 
first Edition of the " Hotel Guests' Guide," to place before 
the stranger in New York, a brief history of this Empire 
City of the Western Hemisphere ; a complete history 
and description of its crowning glory, the Central Park, 
and short sketches of its Public Buildings, Principal 
Churches, Libraries, Asylums, etc., etc. To this we 
have added other valuable information to the traveller 

7 

all of which will be found detailed in our table of 
contents, to which we invite the reader's attention. 

The cost, attending the publication and gratuitous 
distribution of this work among the principal Hotels of 
this City, has been entirely borne by the enterprising 
business firms whose names will be found under " Where 
to Buy," and we cordially recommend to our readers 
these several houses as being the frst in their separate 
classes of business, assuring them that they will be 
fairly dealt with, both as to quality of goods, and scale 
of prices. 

To our Advertising Patrons, and to the Proprietors 
of those Hotels in New York who have accepted and 
distributed our work through their houses, is presented 
the thanks of 

THE PUBLISHERS. 

New York, Nov. 20th, 187L 



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WHEKE TO BUT, 



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AGENTS, ADVERTISING. 

ROWELL GEO. P., & CO., 41 Park Row. 
See A4vt., page 38. 

AGENTS, REAL ESTATE. 

ELA.VANAGH JOHN, cor. 42d st. & f.th av 
See Advt., page 10. 

ANTIQUE FURNITURE AND 
WORKS OF ART. 

STPHER & CO., 593 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 7. 

ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS. 

BURR & BARNUM, 201 6th Avenue. 
See Advt., page 130. 

PARISIAN FLOWER CO., .561 & 563 
Broadway. See Advt., page 54. 

SIEBERT CHARLES, 523 & 524 Broome. 
See Advt., page 40. 

TILMAN Mme. N., & CO., 84 East 9th St. 
See Advt, page 42. 

ARTISTE IN EMBROIDERIES. 

KLEIN FRANCISKA, 279 Bowery. 
See Advt., page 60. 

ARTISTS. 

KURTZ W., 872 Broadway. 

See Advt., p. 30. 

SARONY, 680 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 26. 

AURIST. 

CADWELL F. A., 14 University Place. 
See Advt., page 72. 



BASKETS & WILLOW WARE. 

ZINN CHAS., & CO., 4 06 Broadway. 
See Advt. opp. id page of Contents. 



BATHS. 

AMERICAN BATHS, cor. Irving PJace- 
&17ili Street. See Advt., page 132. 

PIERCY, 697 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 74. 

MILLER, HAYNES & CO., 41 W. 26th St. 
See Advt., page 82. 



BEDS & BEDDING. 

COZZENS C. L., 942 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 40. 



BERLIN WOOLS. 

KORFF A. & E., 1197 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 56. 

BLACKING. 

AMSON LOUIS & CO., 424 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 92. 

BLANK-BOOK MANUFAC- 
TURERS. 

FRANCIS & LOUTREL, 4.i Maiden Lane. 
See Advt., page ix. 

BO.HEMIAN GLASS WARE. 

PALME & CO., 6 College Place. 

See Advt,, page 82. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



BOOT & SHOE MAKERS. 

BEAUMONT CHARLES, 258 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 56. 

THIERRY B. J., 816 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 26. 

WALKER ALBX., 397 6th Avenue. 
See Advt., page 56. 

WALTER JOHN, 25 East 14th Street. 
See Advt., page 30. 

YOUNG ADAM, 856 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 24. 



BRONZE GOODS. 

HAYS ALEX. M., & CO., 23 Maiden Lane, 
and cor. 15th Street & Union Square. 
See Advt. opp. " Where to Buy." 

MAGNIN Ve. J., GUEDIN & CO., 

652 Broadway. See Advt. 
1st page inside front cover. 

T?AYLOR, OLMSTED & TAYLOR, 
5 Bond Street. See Advt., page 24. 

TIFFANY & CO., Union Sq. cor. 15th St. 
See Advt., page 120. 



CAMEO LIKENESSES. 

BERNARD & BONET, 599 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 88. 



CARD ENGRAVERS. 

BSUCE Mrs. L. A., 872 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 28. 

GIMBREDE, 1250 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 96. 

OVERBAUGH A. W., 676 Broadway, 
and 25 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt, page 84. 



CHILDRENS' FURNISHING 
GOODS. 

BLAKE & POND, 21 Astor Place. 

See Advt., page 68. 

LOVE SAMUEL, 313 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 92. 

THURN Mme. L., 30 & 32 East 10th Street. 
See Advt., page 112. 

WATSON Miss E. F., 884^ Broadway. 
See Advt., page 74, 



CHINA & GLASS WARE. 

BRUNDIGE RUFUS M., 919 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 98. 

YOGT JOHN & CO., 35 A 37 Park Place. 
See Advt., page 86. 



CHINESE & JAPANESE GOODS. 

VANTINE A. A. & CO., 814 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 22. 



CHIROPODISTS. 

STONE Mrs. L. R., 743 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 38. 

WESTERVELT R. H., 852 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 54. 

CHURCH CUSHIONS. 

PATENT ELASTIC FELT CO., 

95 Duane Street. See Advt, page 126. 



CHURCH DECORATORS. 

DBYULDER& STEELE, 1212 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 93. 



CLOAKS & MANTILLAS. 

BERNHEIM Mme. ANTOINETTE. 
19 Brevoort Place. See Advt., page 90. 

BRODIE'S, 925 Broadway. 

See Advt , page 44. 

PRATT BROS., 889 Bioadway. 

See Advt., page 18. 

TILMAN Mme. N. &C0., 84 E. 9Ui Street. 
See Advt., page 42. 

VAN DUSEN A., 12 East 14th Street. 
See Advt., page 78. 

CLOTHIERS. 

LOBDELL & TINSLBY, 1180 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 54. 

RANDOLPH, P. J. F., 684 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 58. 



- CONFECTIONERS. 

RIDLEY & CO., corner Chambers and 
Hudson, and 1149 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 64. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



CONSERVATORIES OF MUSIC. 

AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF 
MUSrC, 211 4th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 96. 



CORSETS. 

GAYNOR Mrs. C. A., 824 Broadwaj. 
See Advt., page T4. 

GEDNEY Miss S, J., 29 East 10th Street. 
See Advt., page 90. 

JOYCE Mrs., 233 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 108. 

LAMBELE Mme., 22 East lOlh Street. 
See Advt., page )00. 

MOODY Mrs. S. A., J 7 West 11th Street. 
See Advt,, page 64. 

OLMSTEAD R. A., 781 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 56. 

PONCHON Mme. S.. 225i^6th Avenue. 
See Advt., page 60. 

SMITH Mrs. JENNy'l., 175, 347 and 
64], 6th AvtDue. 

See Advt., page 64. 



COSTUMER.- 

JACOB Y. & CO., 868 Broadwaj. 

See Advt,, page 88. 



DECALCOMANIE. 

SHUTE R. L., 894 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 30. 



DENTAL DEPOTS 

GRISWOLD P. H., 733 & 12.^9 Bruadwav. 
See Advt,, page 3». " 



DENTISTS. 
ALLEN J. & SON, 22 Bond Street. 

See Advt., page 80. 
CLARK H. P., 172 Fifth Avenue. 

See Advt., page 82. 

COVELLL., 23 East 17th Street. 

See Advt., page 70. 

HOWE J. MORGAN, 33 East 17th Street. 

See Advt., page 60. 
MEIGS G. S., 505 f5th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 108. 



NEW YORK DENTAL INSTITUTE cor 
23d St. & 4th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 74. 

REYNOLDS BROS., 62 West 14th Street. 
See Advt., page 104. 

REYNOLDS R. E., 115 4th Avenue. 

See Advt , page 98. 

SIGESMOND S. B., 63 East 9th street. 
See Advt., page 54, 

WOODWARD C. A., 9 East 17th Street. 
See Advt., page 70. 



DIAMONDS. 
SMITH & HEDGES, I Waiden Lane 
bee Advt., 1st page inside front cover. 

TAYLOR, OLMSTED & TAYLOR 6 
Bond Street. See Advt., page 24. 

TIFFANY & Co., Union Sq., cor. Ulh St. 
See Advt., page 1 20. 



DRESS AND CLOAK MAKERS. 
ARMSTRONG Mrs. A., 110 Vest 23d St. 
See Advt., page 124. 

AUGIER Mme. ROULLIER, 17 East 17th 
Street. See Advt., page 106. 

BERNHEIM Mme. ANTOINETTE 19 
Brevoort place. See Advt.. page 90. 

BROMLEY Mme. 1149 Broadway. 

See Advt , page 124. 

CHAMPION & During MUes., 36 W 
24th St. See Advt., page 104. 

CHASE Mme., 45 East 18th Street. 

See Advt., page 128. 

COLLINS Mme., 26 West Uth Street. 
See Advt., page 52. 

COMPORT Mme. E., 365 6th Aven«e. 
See Advt., page 88. 

COOLEY Mme. E., 884^ Broadway. 

See Advt., page Tg. 

DAVIS Mrs. W., 137 West 20th Street. 
See Advt., page 130-. 

DECKER Mme. MARIE, ?1 East 16th St 
See Advt., page 88. 



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WHERE TO BUY. 



DKESS AND CLOAK MAKERS. 

(Continued.) 
DELAMARE Miss, 8 West 11th Street. 
See Advt., page 94. 

DELLAC Mme., 1256 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 102. 

DE VAULX Mme., 58 West 14th Street. 
See Advt., page 130. 

DEVONVILLE Mme., HOW. 3lst Street. 
See Advl., page 88. 

DONOVAN Mrs. C, 8 East 18th Street. 
See Advt., page 104. 

DOUGLASS Mme., M. A., 13 East Hth St. 
See Advt., page 86. 

DURBROW Madame, 30 East 18th Street. 
See Advt., page 32. 

DUVAL, Mme. A., 762 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 110. 

ELLIS Mile. JENNIE, 35 East 10th St. 
See Advt., page 100. 

EVANS K. W. & T. S., 62 University PL 
See Advt., page 74. 

GALOUPEAU MARIE, 53 East 10th St. 
See Advt., page 134 

GEDNEY Miss S. J., 29 East 10th Street. 
See Advt., page 9!i. 

GERARD Mme., 16 East 12th Street. 

See Advt., page 52. 

GIDLEY Mrs. E., 870 Broadwa)-. 

See Advt., page 112. 

HUTCHINSON Mrs., 703 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 130. 

JORDAN Mrs. M. A., 17 Union Square. 
See Advt, page 98. 

LAFORCADE Mme. E., 6 West lUh St. 
See Advt., page 134. 

LAMBELE Mme., 22 East 10th Street. 
See Advt., page l'>0. 

LANE S. D,, 104 West 28th St. 

See Advt., page 124. 

LOVETT Mme., S. P., 753 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 52. 

LUMLEY Mrs., 329 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 106. 



McANDREWS Mile. M, 768 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 134. 

McKINLEY Mile. F., 12 Brevoort Place. 
See Advt., page 100. 

MAGINN Miss, 117 4th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 106. 

MENAGER Mme., 22 East 15th Street. 
See Advt., page 134. 

MOORE Miss, 19 Union Square, 

See Advt., page 52. 

MOSCHCOWITZ & RUSSELL, 63 East 
9th St. See Advt., opp. Preface. 

PFAHLER Miles., 82 East 9th Street. 
See Advt., page 112. 

PICHON THl;RfeSE, 246 Fourth Avenue. 
See Advt., page 88. 

RAPP Mme., 35 West 23d Street. 

See Advt., page 128. 

REID Mrs. JANE, 57 East 9th Street. 
See Advt., page 130. 

ROBINSON Mrs. A., 102 West 13th St. 
See Advt., page 124. 

SEVER Mme. E., 383 Clh Avenue. 

See Advt., page 78. 

SMITH, F. A., 14 Clintou Place. 

See Advt., page 88. 

STARLING Miss J. S., 385 6th Avenue. 
See Advt., page 60. 

SULLIVAN M., 1199 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 102. 

TILMAN Mme. N. & CO.. 84 East 9th St. 
See Advt, page 42. 

VAN DUSEN A., 12 East 14th Street. 
See Advt, page 78. 

WARING Mme., 42 East 12th Street 
See Advt, page 94. 

WILLIAMS Mme., 62 West 14th Street 
See Advt, page 112. 

WINTER Mme., i7th East 14th Street. 
See Advt, page 124. 

WILKES Mme. E. E., 777 Broadway. 
See Advt, page 187. 



WHERE TO BUT. 



DRESS TRIMMINGS— LADIES. 

CROSLET C. W., 635 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 130. 

LANCASTER & CO., 917 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 38. 

MB ARES RICHARD, 6th A v. & 19th St. 
See Advt., page 15. 

MILLER & GRANT, 879 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 24. 

RICHMOND G. & CO., 783 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 24. 



DRY GOODS. 

ARNOLD, CONSTABLE & CO., 881 
Broadway and 3(i9 Canal Street. 
See Advt, page 116. 

MEARES RICHARD, cor. 19th Street & 
6th Avenue. See Advt, page 15. 



DUMB WAITERS. 

MURTAUGH JAMES, 1364 Broadway. 
See Advt, page 26. 



DYERS. 

BARRETT, NEPHEWS & CO., 5 and 7 
John Street. See Advt , page 58. 



EMBLEMATIC SIGNS. 

WASHBURNE, 4 Cortlandt Street 

See Advt, page 30. 



ENGRAVERS GENERAL 

BRUCE Mrs. L. A., 872, Broadway. 

See &.dvt, page 28. 

GIMBREDB, 1250 Broadway. 

See Advt, page 96. 

OVERBAUGH A. W. 676 Broadway and 
25 Maiden Laue. See Advt, page 84. 



FANCY GOODS. 

HAYS ALEX. M. & CO., 23 Maiden Lane 

& cor. 15th Street and Union Square. 

See Advt, opposite " Where to Buy." 



MAGNIN Ve J., GUEDIN k CO., 652 
Broadway. 
See Advt, 1st page inside front cover. 

TIFFANY & CO., Union Square. 

See Advt, page 120. 



FANCY GOODS REPAIRERS. 

GLOR P., 30 West 4th Street 

See Advt , page 98. 



FANCY LEATHER GOODS. 

CULBERT & CO., 24 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt., page 22. 

ROEMER & POINIER, 35 Warren Street 
See Advt, opposite title page. 



FELT GOODS. 

PATENT ELASTIC FELT CO., 95 Duan© 
Street See Advt, page 136. 



FERROTYPES. 

ESTABROOKE, 31 Union Square. 

See Advt, page 46. 



FLORISTS. 

HENDERSON PETER & CO., 35 Cort- 
landt street See page 36. 



FRINGES, CORDS AND TASSELS 

CROSLEY C. W., 635 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 130. 



FURNACES— HOT AIR. 

METCALF H., 113 Beekman Street 

See Advt., page 36. 



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WHERE TO BUY. 



FURNITURE. 

HERTS & CO., 806 and 808 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 128. 

HUTCHINGS E. W. & SON, 99 and 101 
Fourth Avenue. 

See Advt., page 48. 

KINGMAN & MURPHY, 93 Bleecker St. 
See Advt , page 32. 

KOECHLING BERNHARD, 5S and 60 
University Place. 

See Advt., page 112. 

PHELPS, JEWETT & CO., 264 and 266 
Canal Street. 

See Advt., page 60. 

SOUTHACK B. L., 620 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 58. 

FURNITURE MOTH DESTROYER 

WORCH C, 110 Fourth Avenue. 

See Advt., psge 64. 

FURRIERS AND FUR DEALERS. 

GUNTHER'S C. G. SONS, 602 and 504 
Broadway. See Advt., page 116. 

ESTER WILLIAM, 55 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt., page 40. 

ZUGALLA CHARLES H.. 39 Maiden lane 
See Advt., page 30. 

GENTS FURNISHING GOODS. 

ADAMS UNION & CO., i)37 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 118. 

INGERSOLL & GLENNEY, 669 
Broadway. See Advt., page 94. 

LEWIS T. M., 791 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 132. 

MICHAELIS & KASKEL, 643 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 1 10. 

MULLER A.F., 1188 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 56. 

PEREGO, 85 Nassau Street. 

See Advt., page 62. 



GLASS CUTTERS & ENGRAVERS. 

QUINNELL, HARRIS & CO., 48 East 
14th Street Union Square. 

See Advt., page 68. 



GLASSWARE. 

QUINNELL, HARRIS & CO, 48 East 
14th Street Uuion Square. 

See Advt.. page 68. 
VOGT JOHN & Co. 35 and 37 Park Place- 
See Advt., page 86. 



GROCER, WHOLESALE & RETAIL. 

JACKSON, H. B, 182 Fifth Avenue. 

Ste Advt., inside back cover. 

GUNS AND PISTOLS. 

COOPER, HARRIS & HODGKINS, 17T 
Broadway. See Advt., page v. 

REMINGTON E. & SONS, 193 Broadway. 
See Advt, first page inside back cover. 

HAIR (ORNAMENTAL) GOODS. 

BELLCHAMBERS R. T., 3 1 7 6th Aven ue 
See Advt , page 62. 

HELMER N., 781 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 44. 

MALTBY GEO. W., 104 Bleecker Street. 
See Advt., page 84. 

MAREGA G., 765 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 38. 

ROUSSEAU Mme. A., 19 Union Square. 
See Advt., page 42. 

HAIR NETS. 

MALTBY GEO. W.. 104 Bleecker Street 
See Advt., page S4. 



HAND MADE WORSTED GOODS. 

LOVE S., 313 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 92. 

HANDKERCHIEFS. 

FORD'S, 311 6th Aveuue. 

See Advt., page 84. 

HARD WOOD BOARDS. 

READ GEO. W. & CO., 170 and 172 
Centre Street. See Advt., Second page 
inside back cover. 

HUTCHINGS E. W. & SON, 99 and 101 
Fourth Avenue. 

See Advt., page 48. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



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HATTERS. 

CO^STDON JOHN, 6 Amity Street, Grand 
Central Block. See Adrt., page 106. 

MILLER EDWARD, 4 Astor Place. 

See Adrt.. page 88. 



HAVANA AGENCY. 

MARTI^;EZ J. B. & CO.. 10 Wall Street. 
See Adrt, page 132. 

HOOP SKIRTS. 

GAY.srOR Mrs. C. A., 824 Broadvraj. 
See Adrt, page 74. 

SMITH Mrs. JEXNT L., 175, 347 and 641 
Sixth Areaue. See Adrt., page 64. 

OLM5TEAD R. A.. 7?I Broadvraj. 

See Adrt , page 56. 



HOSIERY AND GLOVES. 

ADAMS UXION & CO., 637 Broadway. 
See Adrt., page US. 

DEVIX JOHN C, 1192 Broadway. 
See Adrt, page 56. 

LEWIS T. M., 791 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 132. 

MEARES RICHAFID. 6th Av. and 1 9th St 
See Adrt., page 15. 



HOT AIR FURNACES. 

METCALF H., 113 Beekman Street 
See Adrt , page 36. 

HOUSEKEEPING GOODS. 

MEARES RICHARD, Sixth Arenue. 
cor. 19th Street. See Advt, page 15. 

INDIA GOODS. 

FOUNTAIN & CO., 837 & 839 Broadway. 
See Adrt., page 26. 

TANTIXE A. A. & CO., 814 Broadway. 
See Adrt, page 22. 

INVALID CHAIRS. 

EJND R. & D. LITZKO, 119 Mercer. 

See Adrt., page 82. 



JEWELERS, MANUFACTURING 

HATWARD W. A., 210 Broadway. 

See Adrt., page 66. 

WARREX, SPADOXE k CO., 
658 Broadway See Adrt., page 16. 



JEWELRY, ENGRAVER. 

GTERBAUGH A. W., 676 Broadwar and 
25 Maiden Lane. See Advt, page 84. 



KID GLOVES. 

EDLER OSCAR, 929 Broadway. 

See Adrt., page XI. 

WOXDRA A. J., & CO., 403 Broadway. 
See Advt, page 42. 



KID GLOVE CLEANER. 

REES W. A., 392 Bowery. 

See Adrt., page 74. 



LACES &. EMBROIDERIES. 

FORD'S, 311 6ih Arenue. 

See Advt., page 84. 

FRAXK M, & CO., 763 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 112. 

LANCASTER & CO , 917 Broadwar. 
See Adrt, page 38. 

MILLER & GRAXT, 879 Broadway. 
See Adrt, page 24. 

RICHMOXD G. & CO., 783 Broadway. 
See Advt, page 24J 

SHAW & EATOX, 1105 Broadway. 
See Advt, page 102. 



LADIES' BOOTS «fe SHOES. 

BIXBT & CO., 8 Astor Race. 

See Advt., page 30. 

CAXTRELL S., 239 & 241 4th Arenue. 
See Advt., page 96. 

CZERNT JOHN, 139 4th Areuue. 

See Advt, page 38. 

MILLER & CO., 3 Union Square. 

See Advt., page 64. 

WALKER ALEXANDER, 397 6\h At. 
See Advt., page 56. 



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WHERE TO BUY. 



LADIES' HAIRDRESSERS. 

BELLCHAMBERS R. T., 317 6th Av. 
See Advt., page 62. 

FRANCOIS Mile. A. D., 739 & 741 Broad- 
way. See Advt., page 56. 

GIBBS Mrs. E., 1237 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 98. 

HELMER N., 781 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 44. 

HORNER Mme., 503 6th Aveuue. 

See Advt., page 108. 

KELLY K. & N., 697 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 108. 

LA COUR CHAS. & CO., 423 6th Av. 
See Advt., page ' 08. 

NICOLETTl L., 8'Jl Broadway, 

See Advt., page 38. 

ROUSSEAU Mme. A., 19 Union Square. 
See Advt., page 42. 

SICCARDI Mme. M., 1224 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 30. 

' ■ i ~ .. ■■ ■ I — ■■■.■ — . .- ■ I.. ■ 

LADIES' SUITS. 

PRATT BROTHERS, 889 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 18. 

LADIES' UNDER-GARMENTS. 

BAILLARD Mme. A., 17 Brevoort Place. 
See Advt., page 100. 

BLAKE & POND, 21 Astor Place. 

See Advt., page 68. 

COLLINS Mme., 26 West II th Street. 
See Advt.. page 52. 

MEARES RICHARD, 6th Av. cor. 1 9th St. 
See Advt., page 15. 

NIEDERWIESEN Mile. K..783 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 38. 

SULLIVAN M., 1199 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 102. 

LIFE INSURANCE. 

NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., 
212 Broadway. See Advt., page vi. 

LINGERIE. 

BAILLARD Mme. A., 17 Brevoort Place. 
See Advt., page 100. 



LAFORCADE Mme. 6 W. 11th Street. 
See A.dvt., page 134. 

MENAGRR Mme., 22 E*)st 15th Street. 
See Advt., page 134. 

LITHOGRAPHERS. 

FRANCIS & LOUTRBL, 45 Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. page ix. 

LOAN BROKERS. 

THOMAS A. J., 661 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 20. 

MELVILLE H. B., 1191 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 132. 



MARBLE & MARBLEIZED MANTELS. 

PENRHYN SLATE CO., 40 W. 18th St. 
See Advt., page 40. 



MASONIC EMBLEMS. 

HAY WARD WM. A., -210 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 66. 



MATHEMATICAL & OPTICAL 
INSTRUMENTS. 

PIKES BEN.JAMIN SON, 518 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 34. 

PRENTICE JAMES, 164 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 44. 

SEMMONS J. II., 687 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 28. 

MEERSCHAUM PIPES. 

POLLAK & SON, 43 Maiden Lane and 
27 John street See Advt., 3rd page 
inside back cover. 



MERCHANT TAILORS. 

ELLIOT & CO., 750 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 126. 

LIES BROTHERS. 211 4th Avenue 
See Advt., page 96. 

LOBDELL & TIVSLEY, 1 180 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 54. 

RANDOLPH P. J. F., 684 Broadway. 
See Advt., page fi8. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



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MILLINERS. 

BERNHEIM Mme. ANTOINETTE, 
19 Brevoort Place. 

See Advt., page 90.. 

CHASE Mme., 45 East IStli Street. 

See Advt., page 128. 

DONOVAN Mrs. C, 8 East 18th Street. 
See Advt., page 104. 

DOUGLASS Mme.M. A.. 13 E. 1 Tth Street. 
See Advt., page 86. 

DURBROW Mme., 30 East 18th Street. 
See Advt., page 32. 

ELLIS Mile. JENNIE, 35 E. lOth Street. 
See Advc, page 100. 

EVANS K.W, & T. S., 62 University Place: 
See Advt., page 74= 

FERRERO Mme., 6 Lafayette Place. 

See Advt., page 20 

FOKES Mrs. G., 1149 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 102. 

GALOUPEAU MARIE, 53 E. 10th Street. 
See Advt., page 134. 

GERARD Mme., 16 East 12th Street. 
See Advt., page 52. 

HARTLEY Mme., ti09 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 48. 

HIGGINS M. T., 126 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 124. 

HOWARD Mme. C, 9 Union Square. 
See Advt., page 76. 

KEANE A. M., 359 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 108. 

LAFORCADE Mme., 6 West 11th Street. 
See Advi,. page 134. 

LIPMAN Mme. M., 413 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 60. 

LOVETT Mme. S. P., 753 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 53. 

MoANDREWS Mile. M., 707 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 134. 

McKINLEY Mile. F., 12 Brevoort Place 
See Advt, page 100. 

MEIN Mrs. R., 872 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 32. 



MENAGER Mme., 22 East 15th Street- 
See Advt., page 131. 

MICHKL Mme. A., 423 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 48. 

MYERS HENRY V., 922 Broadway. 
See Advt.. page 70. 

SANDERON Mme, 345 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 124. 

WARING Mme.. 42 East 12th Street. 
See Advt., page 94. 

WATSON Misses, 2?> Brevoort pLice. 

See Advt., page 90. 

TILMAN Mme. N. & CO., 84 E. 9th Street. 
See Advt., page 43. 

WEINBERGER Mme. F., 3 Uuiou Sq. 
See Advt., page 76. 

WINTER Mme., 27 East 14th Street. 

See Advt., puiie 1-24. 



MILLINERY GOODS. 

MEARES RICHARD, 6th Av. & I'.fth St. 
See Advt., page 15. 

MILLER & GRANT, 820 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 24. 

RICHMOND G. & CO., 783 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 24. 



MONOGRAMS. 

BRUCE Mrs. L. A., 872 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 28. 

GIMBREDE, 1250 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 96. 

OVERBAUGH A. W., 25 Maiden Lane 
& 670 Broadway. See Advt , page 84. 



MOTH-DESTROYING APPARATUS 

WORCH C, 110 4th Avenue. 

See Adv., patre 64f. 

MUSIC PUBLISERS. 

HENRY LITOLFF, 211 4th Avenue. 
See Advt.. page &6. 



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WHERE TO BUY. 



MUSICAL ACADEMIES. 

AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF 
MUSIC, 2U 4th Avenue. 

See Advt, page 96. 

HALL AM MARK 12 Union Square East- 
See Adrt., page 98. 



MUSICAL BOXES. 

HAYS ALKX. M. A CO., 23 Maiden Lane 
and cor. Union Square & 15th Street. 
See Advt , opp. " Where to Buy." 

MAGNIN Ye. J., GUEDIN & CO., 
652 Broadway. 
See Advi. 1st page inside front cover. 

RAILLARD M. J. & CO., 680 Broadway. 
See Advt. opp. Title. 

WILMOT F., 5 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt., page 34. 



MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 

SONNTAG HERMAN, H Maiden Lane. 
See Advt. 'Ad page inside back cover. 



NICKEL PLATING. 

AMERICAN NICKEL PLATING CO., 
17 Howard See Advt, page 50. 



OCULIST. 

CAD WELL P. A., M.D., 14 University PI. 
See Advt., page 72. 



OPAL GLASS GLOBES & SHADES. 

JENKINS JOHN, 126 William. 

See Advt., page 74. 

OPERA GLASSES 

SEMMONS J. H., 687 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 28. 



OPTICIANS. 

PIKE'S BENJAMIN, SON, 518Broadway. 
Se© Advt., page 34. 

SEMMONS J. H., 687 Broadwaj-. 

See Advt., page 28. 

PRENTICE JAMES, 164 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 44. 



ORGAN BUILDERS. 

THE STERLING ORGAN, 47 University 
Place. See Advt., page 78. 

PAINTER, ORNAMENTAL. 

LE VULDER & STEELE, 1212 Broadway 
See Advt., page 98. 

PASSE PARTOUTS. 

DUBERNET L., 1.3 & 15 Amity Street. 
See Advt., page 108. 

PHOTOGRAPHERS. 

BILL CHARLtS K., 747 Broadway. 

, See Advt., page 26. 
CAMPBELL & HECKER. 46 E. 14th St. 

See Advt , page 26. 
EREKSON 0., 907 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 30. 
ESTABROOKE, 31 Union Square. 

See Advt., page 46. 
GILLETT E., 174 Sixth Avenue. 

See Advt , page 60. 
KURTZ W., 872 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 30. 
SARONY, 680 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 26. 
VARIAN & AYERS, 383 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 74. 

PIANO STOOLS AND COVERS. 

SMITH R. W., 47 University Place. 

See Advt., page 78. 

PLATING. 

AMERICAN NICKEL PLATING CO., 
17 Howard. 

See Advt, page 50. 

PRINTERS. 

FRANCIS & LOUTREL, 45 Maiden Lane, 

See Advt., opposite 2d page of contents. 

REFLECTORS. 

U. S. REFLECTOR CO., 611 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 108. 

RIBBONS. 

FORD'S, 311 6th Avenue. 

See Advt, page 84. 

MEARES RICHARD, 6th Av. cor. 19th St 
See Advt, page 15. 

MILLER & GRANT, 879 Broadway. 

See Advt, page 24. 



WHERE TO BUY. 



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SEEDSMEN AND FLORISTS. 

HENDERSON PETER & CO., 35 Cort- 
landt Street. 

See Advt., page 36. 

SEGARS. 

JACKSON H. B., 182 Fifth Avenue. 
See Advt., inside back cover. 

PEREA L., .'^ 5 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 26. 

POLLAK & SON, 43 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt., 3d page inside cover. 

SHIRTS. 

INGERSOLL & GLENN EY, 669 Broad- 
way. See Advt., page 94. 

LEWIS T. M., 791 Broadway. 

See Advt. page 132. 

MICHAELLS & KASKEL, 643 Broadway. 
See Advt., page 110. 

NEUVILLB Mme. A., 42 University PL 
See Advt., page 60. 

PEREGO, 85 Nassau Street. 

See Advt, page 62. 

SILKS AND DRESS GOODS. 

ARNOLD, CONSTABLE & CO., 881 
Broadway and 309 Canal Street 

See Advt, page 116. 

MEARES RICHARD, 6th Av. & 1 9th St 
See Advt., page 15 

SLATE MANTELS. 

PENRHYN SLATE CO., 40 W. 18th St 
See Advt., page 40. 

SMOKERS' ARTICLES. 

POLLAK & SON. 43 Maiden Lane and 

27 John Street 

See Advt., 3d page inside back cover. 

SOAP MAKERS (FANCY). 

STERNBERG ER M. & S.. 190, 192 and 
194 S. Fifth Av. See Advt, page VI. 

SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES. 

PIKE'S BKNJAMIN SON, 518 Broadway. 
See Advt., Page 34. 

SEMMONS J. H., 687 Broadway. 

See Advt, page 28. 



SPONGE BEDDING. 

HGRTON WILLIAM R. & SON, 524 
Broadway. See Advt, page 66. 

SPORTING MATERIALS. 

COOPER, HARRIS & HODGKINS, 177 
Broadway. See Advt., page V. 

REMINGTON E. & SONS, 193 Broadway. 
See Advt, first page inside hack cover. 

STATIONERS. 

FRANCIS & LOUTRKL. 45 Maiden Lane.. 
See Advt, page IX. 

STEREOSCOPES. 
BECKER ALEX., 560 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 30. 

STOVES AND RANGES, 
METCALF H., 113 Beekman Street 

See Advt, page 36. 

SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. 

DARROW & CO., 1227 Broadway. 

See Advt, page 28. 

SURVEYING AND ENGINEERING 

INSTRUMENTS. 
PIKE'S BENJAMIN SON, 518 Broadway 
Pee Advt, page 34. 



SWISS CARVED GOODS- 

JESELSON&ZALLVKIS, 645 Broadway. 
See Advt, 2d page inside back cover. 

SWISS MFG. CO., 36 East 14th Street 
See Advt, page 26. 

TAILORS. 

ELLIOT k CO., 756 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 126. 



TEAS, IMPORTER OF. 

JACKSON H. B., 183 Fifth Avenue. 

See Advt., inside back cover. 

TOILET ARTICLES. 

GOURAUD Dr. T. FELIX, 4 8 Bond Street 
See Advt., page 62. 



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AVHERE TO BUY. 



TOILET SOAPS. 

STERNBERG KR, M. & B., 190, 192 & 194 
South Fii'tli Aveuiie. 

See Advt., page vi. 



TOYS. 

SCHWARZ FREDK. A. 0., 766 Broadway 
See Advt. page 28. 



TRAVELLIP^G BAGS. 

CULBERT & CO., 21 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt. page 22. 

KAYANAGH JOHN, corner 42d Street 
and 6th Avenue. See Advt., page 62. 

ROEMER & POINTER, :55 Warren Street, 
corner Church Street. See Advt., op. title. 



TRUNKS. 

GILLMORE J. C , 26 4th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 112. 

KAYANAGH JOHN, corner 42d Street 
and 6th Avenue. 

See Advt., page 62. 

ROEMER and POINTER 35 Warren St., 
corner ChurcbStrcet. 

See Advt., opposite title. 



TRUSSES. 

DARROW & CO., 1-2-27 Broadway. 

See Advt, page 28. 



UMBKELLAS & PAEASOLS. 

COOK JOHN B., 1184 Broadway. 

See Advt., page 66. 



UPHOLSTERERS' MATERIALS. 

HORTON WM. R. & SON, 624 Brouhvay 
See Advt., page 66. 

PATENT ELASTIC FELT CO., 95 
Duane Street. 

See Advt., page 126. 



VENEEES. 

READ GEO. W. & CO., 170 and 172 

Centre Street. 

See Advt., 2d page inside back cover 



WATCHES AND JEWELRY. 

HAYS ALEX. M. & CO., 23 Maiden Lane 
and Union Square, cor. 1 5th Street. 
See Advt., page xii. 

MAGNIN, Y. J., GUEDIN & CO., 652 
Broadwa.y.. 
See Advt.. 1st page inside front cover. 

TAYLOR, OLMSTET^ & TAYLOR, 6 
Bond Street. 

See Advt., page 24. 

TIFFANY & CO., Union Square. 

See Advt., page 120. 

WARREN, SPADONE & CO., 658 
Broadway. 

See Advt., page 16. 

WILMOT F., 5 Maiden Lane. 

See Advt., page 34. 



WATOHMANS' TIME DETEOTOE. 

IMHAEUSER >t CO., Sole Agents, 

45 New Street, New York, P. 0. Box 
4798. 



WAX PLOWEE MATERIALS. 

WORGANG. 33 East 17th Street. 

See Advt.. page 112. 



WAX ELOWEES. 

MOGRTDGE Mrs., 33 East lllh Street. 
See Advt., page 112. 

WHITE aOODS. 

FORD'S, 311 Gth Avenue. 

See Advt, page 84. 

WILLOW WAEE. 

ZINN CHARLES, & CO , ^06 Broadway. 

Page IX. 

WINES, IMPOETEE Of. 

JACKSON H. B.. 182 Fifth Avenue. 
See Advt., inside back Cover. 

WOESTED GOODS. 

LOVE S., 313 6lh Avenue. 

See Advt., page 92. 



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RICHAEB MEARES', 

6„ AVEHUE & Wm ST.. HEW YORK. 

Strangers visiting the city can find a large and elegant assortment of 




carefully selected for 

FIRST-CLA.SS RETAIL TRADE, 

At extren>«ly low rateSi 
We are now opening specialities in 

Black and Colored Silks and Satins, 

Dress Goods and Mourning Goods, 

Bonnet and Cloaking Velvets and Velveteens. 
Llama and Thread Lace Shawls and Sacques, 

Millinery Goods, French Flowers and Straw Goods, 
Ready-Made Underclothing and Corsets, 
Hosiery, Gloves and Undergarments, 

Hamburgh Embroideries and Lace Goods, 

Ptibbons, Velvets and Dress Trimmings, 
House-keeping Goods and Linens, 

Small Wares, Travelling Bags and Jewelry. 



We wouid respectfully invite your inspection, confident that from the STYLE, 

QUALITY and LOW PRICES of our goods, 

you will find them worthy your especial attention. 



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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 



NEW YORK AS IT WAS. 



HISTORICAL LOCALITIES. 

The denizens of New York are such utilitarians that 
tliey have sacrificed to the shrine of Mammon almost every 
relic of the olden time. The feeling of veneration for the 
past, so characteristic of the cities of the Old World, is 
lamentably deficient among the people of the New. Still, 
as there are some who may take an interest in knowing 
even the sites of memorable historic places of the city, we 
will briefly refer to some of them. Few, we presume, are 
not patriotic enough to gaze with interest as they pass 
through Franklin Square, on the site of the old town man- 
sion of Washington, which stood at the northeast angle of 
Franklin Square and Pearl Street, or tread the sod of Fort 
Greene, Brooklyn, that battle-ground of the Martyrs of- 
Liberty. 

Taking the Battery as a starting point, the first object of 
historic interest we encounter is the old Kennedy House, 
No. 1 Broadway. During the war of independence it was 
successively the residence of Lord Cornwallis, General 
Clinton, Lord Howe and General Washington. This house 
was erected in 1760 by Hon. Captain Kennedy, who re- 
turned to England prior to the Uevolution. It subsequently 
came into the possession of his youngest son, from whom it 
ultimately passed into that of the' late Nathaniel Prime. 
Talleyrand passed some time under its roof 

From this house anxious eyes watched the destruction 
of the statue of George III, in the Bowling Green; and a 
few years afterwards other eyes saw, from its windows, the 
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Still later, others looked sadly on the funeral of Fulton, who 
died in a house which had been built in what was once the 
garden. 

Here Arnold concerted his treasonable project with 
Andre at the Clinton's — his head-quarters at the time. 
Arnold also occupied more frequently the thh'd house from 
the Battery, in Broadway. Arnold is said to have had a 
sentinel at his door. When his traitorous character had 
become known he used to be saluted in the streets by the 
epithet of "the traitor-general." He was guarded by an 
escort from Sir Henry Clinton. General Gage's head- 
quarters in 1765 was the small low building since known as 
the Atlantic Garden. 

The Bowling Green was originally inclosed, in 1732, 
"with walks therein for the beauty and ornament of said 
street, as well as for the sports and delight of the inhabi- 
tants of the city." 

In 1697 it was resolved "that the lights be hung out in 
the dark time of the moon within this city, and for the 
use of the inhabitants; and that every 7th house do hang 
a lantern and a candle in it," &c. 

The site of the old Government House is now occupied 
by a range of dwelling-houses at the south side of the inclo- 
sure, called the Bowling Green. It was subsequently used 
as the Custom House (from 1790 to 1815), when it was taken 
down. Earlier recollections even belong to this location; 
here the Dutch and English forts were erected. At the 
corner of Wall and William streets, now the Bank of New 
York, once stood the statue of William Pitt. The old Stadt 
Huys stood at Coenties Slip. On the site of the present 
U. S. Treasury was, situated the Town Hall, or "Congress 
Hall," which included also the Law Courts and Prison. In 
front of this building were the stocks, a pillory, and a whip- 
ping post. This edifice was subsequently converted into a 
hall of legislature. 

It was in its gallery, on Wall street, in April, 1789, that 
General Washington was inaugurated the first President of 
the United States. This important public ceremony 
took place in the open gallery in front of the Senate 
Chamber, in the view of an immense concourse of 
citizens. There stood Washington, invested with a suit of 
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his side, hair in bag and full powdered, in black silk hose, 
and shoes with silver buckles, as he took the oath of office 
to Chancellor Livino-ston. Dr. Duer thus describes the 
scene of the inauguration: — 

"This auspicious ceremony took place under the portico 
of Federal Hall, upon the balcony in front of the Senate 
Chamber, in the immediate presence of both Houses of Con- 
gress, and in full view of the crowds that thronged the 
adjacent streets. The oath was administered by Chancellor 
Livingston, and when the illustrious chief had kissed the 
book, the Chancellor, with a loud voice, proclaimed, ' Long 
live George Washington, President of the United States.' 
Never shall I forget the thrilling eftect of the thundering 
cheers which burst forth, as from one voice, peal after peal 
from the assembled multitude. Nor Avas it the voices alone 
of the people that responded to the announcement, their 
hearts beat in unison with the echoes resounding through 
the distant streets; and many a tear stole down the rugged 
cheeks of the hardiest of the spectators, as well I noted 
from my station in an upper window of the neighboring 
house of Colonel Hamilton." 

Washington's farewell interview with his officers took 
place at France's Tavern, corner of Pearl and Broad streets. 

New York is noted for its pageants and processions. 
That on the occasion of the last visit of General Lafayette 
presented the most imposing spectacle of its time. 

In ancient times boats were used to convey passengers 
across Pearl street. Canal and Cliff streets derive their 
names from a like circumstance. The Old Dutch records 
show that the outskirts of the town were divided into 
farms — called "Bouwerys;" from this fact the Bowery de- 
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The hills were sometimes precipitous, as from Beekman's 
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Nassau street, down to Maiden lane; and sometimes gradu- 
ally sloping, as on either hills along the line of the water, 
coursino^ throu2:h Maiden lane. 

When Hamilton acted as Secretary of the Treasury he 
wrote the "Federalist" at a house in Wall sireet, between 
Broad and William streets, its site being now occupied by 
the Mechanics' Bank. His last residence was the Grange^ 



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at Bloomingdale. He lived also for some time at Bayard 
House, on the banks of the North River. The location 
where his hapless duel with Burr occurred, near Weehaw- 
ken, is pointed out to visitors; a stone marks the spot 
where Hamilton fell. 

Leisler and Milbourne, the proto-martyrg of popular 
liberty in America, met with a sanguinary death. May 16th, 
1691, on the verge of Beekman's swamp, near the spot 
where the Sun Building now stands. 

Where Catharine street now stands was the spot where 
the stamps were bu?rnt, at the dead of night, by citizens in 
the year 1776. 

Benjamin Franklin, while residing in New York, used as 
an observatory for experimenting on electricity the steeple 
of the old Dutch Church, now the Post Office, in Nassau 
street. Who will not gaze with interest at this starting 
point of that luminous train which now encircles the globe, 
and by which we communicate in letters of light with our 
antipodes almost with the celerity of thought. 

The old City Hall, in Broadway, the site of which is 
now occupied by a row of brown stone buildings, was for a 
long time the most notable edifice of the kind in the city. 
Here Washington, with his suite, attended the brilliant 
assemblies of his days. 

A still more interesting relic of the past was the old 
Sugar-House Prison, which, till within a very few years, 
stood in Liberty street, adjacent to the Dutch Church, now 
the Post Office. It was founded in 1689, and occupied as a 
sugar refining factory till 1777, when Lord Howe converted 
it into a place of confinement for American prisoners. 

The old Walton House, in Pearl street, was one of the 
memorabilia of New York city. This celebrated mansion 
Vi^as erected, in 1754, by Walton, a wealthy English mer- 
chant. It continued in possession of the family during the 
Revolutionary war, and was the scene of great splendor and 
festivity. 

Washington's city mansion stood at the junction of Main 
and Pearl streets, the northern angle of Franklin Square. 
Here the General was accustomed to hold state levees. 

The old Brewery at the Five Points, recently taken 
down, is deserving of some notice. Its purlieus were those 
of wretchedness and crime; they have been fitly described 
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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 25 

degraclatioD too appalling to be believed and too shocking 
to be disclosed; Avhere you find crime without punishment, 
disgrace without shame, sin without compunction, and death 
without hope." 

During the past few years the attention of the benevo- 
lent has been attracted to this locality, and a missionary 
station has been erected there, under the direction of Mr. 
Pease. The entire cost of the establishment has been esti- 
mated at over $80,000. 

The old Methodist Church in John street, nearly facing 
Dutch street, is an object of antiquarian interest. In 
William street, about midway between John and Fulton 
streets, stands a range of modern houses, about the centre 
of which was the birth-place of Washington Irving. 

Old Governor Stuyvesant's house stood upon his 
"Bowerie Farm," a little to the south of St. Mark's Church, 
between the Second and Third Avenues. A pear tree, im- 
ported from Holland in 1647 by Stuyvesant, and planted in 
his garden, yet flourishes on the corner of Thirteenth street 
and Third Avenue, the only living relic which preserves the 
memory of the renowned Dutch Governor. This patriarchal 
tree is two hundred and twelve years old. 

He lived eighteen years after the change in the govern- 
ment, and at his death was buried in his vault within the 
chapel. Over his remains was placed a slab (which may 
yet be seen in the eastern wall of St. Mark's), with the fol- 
lowing inscription: — "In this vault lies buried Petrus Stuy- 
vesant, late Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of 
Amsterdam, in New Netherlands, now called New York, 
and the Dutch West India Islands. Died in August, a. d., 
1682, aged eighty years." 

At the corner of Charlton and Varick streets stood a 
wooden building, formerly of considerable celebrity, known 
as the "Ptichmond Hill House." It has had many distin- 
guished occupants, having been successively the residence 
of General Washington, John Adams and Aaron Burr. It 
has been the scene of great festivities. Baron Steuben, 
Chancellor Livingston, and numerous other notable men of 
their times, having met within iis walls. 

Aaron Burr once lived at the corner of Cedar and 
Nassau streets, and, after he held the office of Vice-Presi- 
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Cobbett kept his seed store at 62 Fulton street. His 
larm was at Hempstead, Long Island. 

Grant Thorburn's celebrated seed store, which was one 
of the notable objects of the city in its time, was in Liberty 
street, between Nassau and Broadway, and occupied as 
large a space as the present establishment in John street. 
His store was previously used for a Quaker meeting-house, 
the first that that society had erected in' the city. 

The brick meeting-house, built in 1764, in Beekman 
street, near Nassau street, then standing on open fields, was 
the place where Whitefield preached. 

On the site of the present Metropolitan Hotel once lived 
the diplomatist, Talleyrand, when ambassador to the United 
States. He published a small tract on America, once much 
read ; he it was who affirmed that the greatest sight he had 
ever beheld in this country was Hamilton, with his pile of 
books under his arm, proceeding to the court-room in the 
old City Hall in order to expound the law. 

James Rivington, from London, opened a book store, in 
1761, near the foot of Wall street, from wdiich his "Royal 
Gazetteer," was published in April, 1773. 

Gaine's "New York Mercury," in Hanover Square, was 
established in 1752; Holt's "New York Journal," in Dock 
(Pearl) street, near Wall, commenced in 1776; and Ander- 
son's "Constitutional Gazette," a very small sheet, was pub- 
lished for a few months in 1775 at Beekman's Slip. 

Gaine kept a book store under the sign of the Bible and 
Crown, at Hanover Square, for forty years. Among the 
early publishers and booksellers may be named Evert Duyc- 
kinck, wdio lived at the corner of Pearl street and Old Slip ; 
and Isaac Collins, George A. Hopkins, Samuel Campbell 
and T. & J. Swords. 

William Barlas, of Maiden Lane, was himself an excel- 
lent scholar. He published classical books. He was the 
friend and correspondent of Newton, Cowper's friend. 

In the year 1607, the memorable year in which forty- 
seven learned men began the English version of the Bible, 
Henry Hudson sailed in search of a northeast passage to 
India. For two seasons he strove in vain to penetrate the 
ice barriers, and then turned homeward. His patrons aban- 
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and entered the service of tlie Dutch East India Comj)any, 
whose fleets then agitated the waters of almost every sea. 

On the 3d of September, KiOO, the intrepid navigator 
first entered the Bay of New York. Here commence the 
acknowledged chronicles of European civilization on these 
shores of the newly-discovered continent, over which, till 
then, the wild Indian had held undisputed sway. Accord- 
ing to the Scandinavian records, it is affirmed, the Norsemen 
visited our shores even prior to the discovery of the conti- 
nent by the famed Genoese. 

Among those supposed early navigators was Prince 
Madoc; and Verrazani, who, in the year 1514, is believed 
to have anchored in these waters and explored the coast of 
what was then known as part of ancient Vinland. We shall 
take a cursory glance at the leading events which have been 
handed down to us, since they will serve to illustrate the 
progressive advancement of the civilized over the savage 
forms of life, of which this memorable island has been the 
theatre. 

Although Hudson has not recorded in his diary his land- 
ing in the harbor of New York, we possess a tradition of the 
event by Heckewelder, the Indian historian. He describes 
the natives as greatly perplexed and terrified when they 
beheld the approach of the strange object — the ship in the 
offing. They deemed it a visit from the Manitou, coming 
in his big canoe, and began to prepare an entertainment for 
his reception. "By-and-by, the chief, in red clothes and a 
glitter of metal ^ with others, came ashore in a smaller canoe, 
mutual salutations and signs of friendship were exchanged; 
and after a while strong drink was offered, which made all 
gay and happy. In time, as their mutual acquaintance pro- 
gressed, the lohite skins told them they would stay with 
them if they allowed them as much land for cultivation . as 
the hide of a bullock, spread before them, could cover or 
encompass. 'The request was gratified; and the pale men, 
thereupon, beginning at a starting point on the hide, cut it 
up into one long extended narrow strip, or thong, sufficient 
to encompass a large place. Their cunning equally surprised 
and amused the confiding and simple Indians, who willingly 
allowed the success of their artifice, and backed it with a 
cordial welcome." Such was the origin of the site of New 
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a revelling name, importing " the place where they all got 
drunk!''' and a name then hestoived by the Indians as comme- 
morative of that first great meeting. 

Hudson afterwards proceeded to explore the North River^ 
since called after his name — the Hudson. The Half-Moon 
anchored at Yonkers, and the Indians came off in canoes to 
traffic with the strangers. But the river narrowed beyond 
the Highlands, and Hudson, after sailing up as far as the site 
of Albany, retraced his way to Manhattan, and at once sailed 
for Europe. His favorable reports gave rise to an expedition 
of two ships in 1614, under Captain Adrian Block and Hend- 
rick Christiaanse. It was under their auspices that the first 
actual settlement was begun upon the site of the present 
New York, consisting in the first year of four houses and in 
the next year of a redoubt on the site of the Bowling Green. 
To this small village they gave the name of New Amster- 
dam. The settlement was of a commercial and military 
character, having for its object the traffic in the fur trade. 

At the time Holland projected this scheme of commercial 
settlement she possessed 20,000 vessels and 100,000 mariners. 
The City of Amsterdam was at the head of the enterprise. 

From its earliest period, "Nieuw Amsterdam" had a 
checkered history. The English turned towards it a wistful 
eye, and took it from the Dutch in 1664, who succeeded, 
however, in recovering it in 1673. Not more than a year 
after it was ceded again to the British, and underwent a 
change of name, from New Amsterdam to New York, in 
honor of James, Duke of York, to whom it was made over 
by Charles the Second. From this period it began to make 
progress, although slowly, in buildings, population and muni- 
cipal arrangements. 

The city prior to British rule (that is, in 1656) was laid 
out in streets, some of them crooked enough, and contained 
"cuie hundred and twenty houses with extensive garden lots," 
and about one thousand inhabitants. In 1677 another esti- 
mate reports that it comprised three hundred and sixty-eight 
houses, while its assessed property amounted to ninety-five 
thousand pounds sterling. 

During the military rule of Governor Colve, who held the 
city for one year under the above-mentioned capture for the 
States of Holland, everything partook of a military character, 
and the laws still in preservation at Albany show the energy 



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of a rigorous discipline. Then the Dutch Mayor, at the head 
of the city militia, held his daily parades Ijefore the City 
Hall (Stadt Huys), then at Coenties iSlip; and every evening 
at sunset he received from the principal guard of the fort, 
called the hoojd-wayi, the keys of the city, and thereupon 
proceeded, with a guard of six, to lock the city gates ; then 
Jo place a hurger-wagt^ a citizen guard, as night watch, at 
assigned places. The same mayors also went the rounds at 
smirise to open the gates, and to restore the keys to the 
officers of the fort. 

In 1G83 the first constitutional assem1)ly. consisting of a 
council of ten and eighteen representatives, was elected to 
aid in the administration of public affairs. In this year the 
ten orio'inal counties were oro;anized. In 1685, on the demise 
of Charles II. , the Duke of Y'ork ascended the throne, with 
the title of James II. This bigoted monarch signalized him- 
self by forbidding the establishment of a printing-press in the 
colony. 

Governor Dongan wa>s far better than his sovereign, and 
at length was recalled in consequence of his remonstrances 
against other arbitrary measures he was instructed to carry 
out with regard to the confederate Indian triljes and the 
Jesuits. Andros was appointed to supersede him, but his 
also was but a short reign, for the populace grew disaffected, 
and in a civil commotion, one Jacob Leisler, a Dutch, mer- 
chant, was proclaimed leader, and ultimately invested with 
the reins of government. 

He also summoned a convention of deputies from those 
portions of the province over which his influence extended. 
This convention levied taxes and adopted other measures for 
the temporary government of the colony ; and thus, f )r the 
first time in its existence, was the colony of New York under 
a free government. The strong prejudices, however, which 
had been awakened by Leister's measures soon produced in 
the minds of his adversaries a rancorous bitterness which was, 
perhaps, never surpassed in the annals of any political con- 
troversy. 

This condition of things existed for nearlv two vears. 
To the horrors of civil commotion were added the misaries 
of hostile invasion by the French in Canada. 

The earliest dawn of intellectual light — for the diffusion 
of popular intelligence had been heretofore wholly neg- 

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NEW YORK. 

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HISTORY or NEW YORK. 35 

lected — was the establishment of a free grammar school in 
1702. in 1725, the first newspaper made its appearance; 
and four years later, the city received the donation of a 
Public Library of 1642 volumes, from England. In 1732, a 
public Classical Academy was founded by law ; and with the 
advance of general intelligence came a higher appreciation of 
popular rights. But New York was destined to be convulsed 
by a series of commotions ; and among them the memorable 
one known as the Negro Plot, which resulted in a great des- 
truction of life. 

The trade of New York increased. Her ships were already 
seen in many foreign ports ; neither Boston or Philadelphia 
surpassed her in the extent of her commercial operations. 
Provisions, linseed-oil, furs, lumber, and iron, were the prin- 
cipal exports. From 1749 to 1750, two hundred and eighty- 
six vessels left New York, with cargoes principally of flour 
and grain. In 1755, nearly thirteen thousand hogsheads of 
flax seed were shipped abroad. 

The relations of the colonies with the mother country were 
assuming a serious aspect. In 17 65, a congress of delegates 
met at New York, and prepared a declaration of their rights 
and grievances. The arrival of the stamped paper, so noto- 
rious in the colonial annals of America, towards the end of 
this year, marked the commencement of a series of explo- 
sions" that were not to terminate until the city and colony of 
New York, in connuon with the other colonies, were forever 
rent from the dominion of Great Britain. The non-importa- 
tion agreements of the merchants of New York, and other 
places, in 1768, were followed by stringent measures on the 
part of the British grvernment. 

On the 28th of June, 1776, the British army and fleet, 
which had been driven from the city and harbor of Boston, 
entered the southern bay of New York. The troops were 
landed on Staten Island. On the 2 2d of August, the British 
forces crossed the Narrows and encamped near Brooklyn, 
where the American army was stationed. The battle of 
Long Island ensued, in which, owing to unfortunate circum- 
stances, the Americans were entirely defeated. Washington, 
with consummate skill, crossed the river the succeeding 
night, without observation ; but the previous disasters, and 
the subsequent landing of the British troops at Kip's Bay, 
rendered it impossible to save the city. 




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35 GORTLAIUDT STREET, 

N:E-W YORK. 

Illustrated Catalogues sent on A.pplicatiofi. ,Ml 



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Furrier, 

Mianufacturex" and Importer, 

A Large assortment of Ladies' and Misses' Fine Furs, manufactured by onrselves, 
expressly for First Class Rf^tail Trade. All goods guaranteed as represented. We mos 
respectfully invite the public to an examination. 






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COOKING RANGES,:STOVES, 

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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 37 

For eight years New York was the head-quarters of the 
British troops, and the prison-house of American captives. 
Public buildings were despoiled, and churches converted into 
hospitals and prisons. A fire, in 1776, sweeping along both 
sides of Broadway, destroyed one-eighth of the buildings of 
New York. 

On the 25th of November, 1783, the forces of Great 
Britain evacuated the city, and Washington and the Gover- 
nor of the State, made a public and triumphal entry. 

This important national event, forming the brightest day 
in the American calendar, is annually celebrated with appro- 
priate military pomp and parade. 

In ten years after the war of independence. New York 
had doubled its inhabitants. Yet the city had repeatedly 
suffered from the scourge of the yellow fever, from calami- 
tous fires, &c. Notwithstanding all, its commercial enter- 
prise has been rapidly and largely increasing, while its ship- 
ping has gallantly spread over every sea, and won the 
admiration of the world. The first establishment of regular 
lines of packets to Em-ope originated with New York, and it 
is also claimed for her the honor of the first experiments in 
steam-navigation. 

Improvements hitherto had been principally connected 
with foreign commerce. But an impulse was now to be 
given to inland trade by the adoption of an extensive system 
of canal navigation. Several smaller works were cast into 
the shade by the completion of the gigantic Erie Canal, in 
1825. The union of the Atlantic with the Lakes, was an- 
nounced by the firing of cannon along the whole line of the 
canal and of the Hudson, and was celebrated at New York 
by a magnificent aquatic procession, which, to indicate more 
€learly the navigable communication that had been opened, 
deposited in the ocean a j^ortion of the waters of Lake Erie. 

Municipal history is a narrative of alternate successes 
and reverses. For many years nothing had occurred to mar 
the prosperity of the city. Again misfortune came. In 1832 
the Asiatic cholera appeared, and 4360 persons fell victims to 
the disease. This calamity had scarcely passed, when the great 
fire of 1835 destroyed, in one night, more than 600 buildings, 
and property to the value of $20,000,000. The city had not 
recovered from the effects of this disaster, when the com- 
mercial revulsions of 1836 and 1837 shook public and private 



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139 Fourth Avenue, 

Near 13th Street, NEW YORK. 
*► 

ALL KINDS OF FRENCH SHOES 

made to Order. 

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Has Opened New and Elegant Rooms at 

(Opposite Astor Place) 

Where she is prepared to treat all who 
are troubled with 

CORNS. BUMONS AND INVEKTED NAILS. 

Ladies Treated at their Eesidences if Desired. 



917 Broadivay^ 

Near Twenty-first St. NEW YORK. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 

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BEST MAKERS^ TEETH, 



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WEEKLY. 

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Office, No. 41 PARK ROW, 

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mm nil iiiiiii 

8 9 1 BROADWAY, 

Bel. 19th and 20th St. 
IV KW YORIi 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 

Mamifacturer of all kinds of Hair Work. 

Always on hand a lar2;e assortment of Braids, 
Curls, Chifrnons, Pompadours, Frizet Wigs, 
Half Wigs, Perfumery, &c , &c. 

(FROM PA! IS) 

IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF 

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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 

Braids, Natural Curls, Chignons, Wigs, kt. 

OH HAND AND TO OEDEE. 

IMPORTER^VENETIAN BEADS 

Bet. 8th and 9tli St. 

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Successor to Madame M. Frank. 

AND 

Undergarments 



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783 BROAD^WAY 

UP STAIES, 
Opposite A. T. Stewart & Co. 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 39 

credit to their centre, and involved many of the most 
wealthy houses of New York in hopeless bankruptcy. 

The completion of the Croton Aqueduct, in 1842, re- 
moved the inconvenience of a deficiency of water, and left an 
imperishable monument to the glory of New York. 

A temporary check to the progress of the city was sus- 
tained by the great fire of 1845, which destroyed property to 
the extent of about $7,000,000 ; but shortly afterwards a new 
and vigorous impulse was again given to the commercial 
enterprise of the metropolis, by the constant influx of gold 
from the seeming exhaustless resources of the El Do7-ado of 
the Pacific. 



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GENERAL VIEW. 

The City of New Yorlv, from its geographical position, 
having become the great centre of commercial enterprise, is 
justly regarded as the Metropolitan City of the New World. 
In mercantile importance it bears the same relation to the 
United States that London does to Great Britain. Its past 
history is replete with interest, for it has been the theatre of 
some of the most important events that pertains to our 
country's memorable career : and although it possesses fewer 
historic shrines than are to be found in many cities of the 
Old World, yet its chronicles still live as treasured relics in 
the hearts of its people, and on the page of its national re- 
cords. If we take a retrospective glance, we shall find that 
a little more than two centuries ago, this island of Manna- 
hata — its earliest recorded name, had its birth-day of civili- 
zation in a few rude huts, and a fort situated where the 
Bowling Green now stands ; and in this comparatively brief 
interval in the life-time of a nation, it has bounded from the 
infant Dorj) or village into a noble city of palaces, with its 
half million of inhabitants. It is now the greatest workshop 
of the Western world — the busy hive of industry, with its 
tens of thousands of artizans, mechanics and merchants, send- 
ing out to all sections of its wide-spread domain, the magic 
of machinery for all departments of handicraft, and argosies 
of magnificent vessels for garnering in the wealth of foreign 
climes. 



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Maiiufactiirer of Fine Furs. 



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iiyipoenriB: of skins. 

Have on hand a lai-oe assortment of Ladies', Misses', and 

Gents' Furs, Sleigh Robes, &c., manufactured expressly 

for first-class trade, both for wholesale and retail. 



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No. 40 WEST EIGHTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK, 

Between Fifth and Sixlli Avenues. 

V/. H. KIP.TIiAND, Secretary 



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Matlsesses, 



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Importer & Manufacturer of 



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jniew York, 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 41 

If we glance prospectively, how shall we venture to limit 
its progressive march in opulence and greatness ? In less 
than half a century hence, it will doubtless double its 
present numerical importance. As illustrations of the enor- 
mous increase in the value of real estate, it may be 
mentioned that a lot on the northwest corner of Chambers 
Street and Broadway, was purchased by a gentleman who 
died in 1858, for $1 000. It present value isnow estimated 
at no less a sum than $125,000. 

The site on which the new Herald building now stands 
was lately purchased by James Gordon Bennett, Esq., for 
four hundred thousand dollars paid to Barnum for an un- 
expired lease of thirteen years, held at the time his 
American Museum was burned. Also the lot immediately 
adjoining this, with a frontage of less than sixty feet, on 
Broadway, was sold at auction a short time since for three 
hundred and ten thousand dollars ! 

A little more than two centuries since, the entire site of 
this noble city was purchased of the Indians for what was 
equivalent to the nominal sum of twenty-four dollars. Now 
the total amount of its assessed property tax is ten and a 
half million dollars. If such vast accessions of wealth have 
characterized the history of the past, who shall compute the 
constantly augmenting resources of its onward course ? 
Half a century ago, the uses of the mighty agents of steam 
and the electric current were unknown : now the whole 
surface of our vast countrv is threaded over with a net- 
work of railroads, and our seas, lakes, and rivers are thickl}^ 
studded with steamers ; stately vessels, freighted with the 
fruits of commerce, all tending to this city as the central 
mart of trade. Half a century ago it took weeks to trans- 
mit news from New York to New Orleans — now our com- 
munications are conveyed over the length and breadth of 
the land almost with the velocity of the lightning's flash. 
Within a like interval the most rapid printing-press was 
slowly worked by hand-power — now the winged messengers 
of intelligence are multiplied with the marvellous rapidity 
of 60,000 copies an hour. While the mechanic arts have 
thus revolutionized the social condition of the past, a 
corresponding change has marked its history, in the estab- 
lishment of numerous schools of learning, diffusing their 
beneficent influence on the minds and morals of the masses. 



Mnie. N. Tilnian & Co., 

m EAST ITIXTH ST., m\Y yohh. 

Opposite A. T. Stewart & Ca.) 

And S3 BOULEVARD HAUSSMANN. PARIS. 



Imported Dresses, Cloaks, Zouaves, Saques. Fine Lingerie. 



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LADIES* HAIR_ DRESSER. 



.JKrticles ft>r the ©oilp.tte and Fint French 

PERFUMERY, 

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HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 43- 

Then, again, as respects its costly stores and private 
residences, New York seems to vie with London and Paris. 
All along Broadway, and its intersecting streets, the eye 
is greeted everywhere by long lines of marble and stone 
buildings, many of them of great architectural elegance. 
The several broad Avenues and Squares, in the upper part 
of the city, are studded with a succession of splendid 
mansions — in some instances costing from $50,000 to 
$200,000 each. There are, it is estimated, some three 
hundred churches, many of them of costly and magnificent 
proportions; while its superb hotels — the boast of the 
metropolis — are, in some instances, capable of accommodat- 
ing about one thousand guests. 

How mighty and far-reaching must its influences become 
in its future progress, it were difficult to compute : since its 
numerical extent, numbering at present, if we include 
Brooklyn and the adjacent places on the west, over a million 
of souls, will ere long place it, in the scale of cities of the 
world, in the foremost rank. 



NEW YORK AS IT IS. 



Society in New York has many phases — it is cosmopoli- 
tan — and amalgam, composed of all imaginable varieties and 
shades of character. It is a confluence of many streams, 
whose waters are ever turbid and confused in their rushing 
to this great vortex. What incongruous elements are here 
commingled, — the rude and the refined, the sordid and the 
self-sacrificing, the religious and the profane, the learned 
and the illiterate, the affluent and the destitute, the thinker 
and the doer, the virtuous and the ignoble, the young and 
the aged — all nations, dialects, and sympathies — all habits, 
manners, and customs of the civilized globe. 

City life everywhere presents protean aspects ; let us take 
a glance at some of its more striking features, notwithstand- 
ing the mixed multitudes that are incessantly thronging its 
various avenues. There are yet certain localities that exhibit 




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Importer and Manufacturer of 



CLOAKS AND 




TILLAS, 



and Dealer in 



Cloak Materials and Trimmings, 
lACE SHAWLS, FURS, &c. 



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No. 92S BroadAA^ay. 



Importer and Manufacturer of 

atioe! mi Ojtical iDStriiineflts, 

]Sro, 164 BPlO^D^\^^Y, 




Two DOOKS BELOW MAIDEN LANE, 



REPAIRS OF ALL KINDS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 






(From Paris) 



Importer and Mainiliacturer omne 

HUMAN HAIR GOODS. 

None but the best and purest of hair used, good workmanship and ratioual rates constantly 
increase our success. We monthly receive the latest novelties from Paris. Ladies hair dressing, 
In the artistic sense, our specialty. Fine Wigs, &c., to order. 



781 BROADWAY, up stairs, 

Opposite .A. T. Stewart's. 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK. 45- 

distinct characteristics : life in Wall Street presents an 
epitomized view of its mercantile phase. Here are its banks, 
its money-exchanges, and their great place of rendezvous, 
the Exchange; beneath the dome of which many mighty 
projects have had their birth. Here have been concocted 
vast schemes of commercial enterprise, and here, too, have 
originated many noble acts of public benefaction. 

Up Nassau Street, to its junction with Chatham Street, 
of mock-auction notoriety, we catch a glimpse of another 
phase of city life. To denizens of New York, society is 
usually known under the generic divisions of Broadway and 
Bowery. Each has its distinct idiosyncracies; the former 
being regarded as patrician, and the latter as plebeian. 
Looking at New York longitudinally, we may say that Canal 
Street, at present, marks the boundary of the gr^at work- 
shop. In the precincts of Union Square and Madison Square, 
and especially the Fifth Avenue, we find monuments of the 
wealth, taste, and splendor of its citizens. 

The southern part of the city — its original site — exhibits 
all kinds of irregularity — the streets ai'e narrow, sinuous and 
uneven in their surface ; liut the northern or up]:)e3' portion is 
laid out in right angles. There are some twelve fine avenues. 
at parallel distances apart of about 800 feet. There are 
about 200 miles of paved streets in the Metropolis, extending 
to Fourty-fourth street ; exclusive of projected streets not 
yet paved, over 100 streets more. The city has been laid 
out and surveyed to the extent of 12 miles from the Battery.. 
The portion occupied exceeds in circumference more than 
extent. 

Perhaps the densest j^arts of the metropolis, — its very 
heart, from whence issues the vitalizing tide of its commerce, 
— is the junction of Broadway and Fulton streets, and its vici- 
nity. The collision of interests which all the stir and traffic 
of these crowded streets involve, brings human nature into 
strong relief, and intensities the lights and shades of 
character. 

It is in these dusty avenues to wealth — these vestibules 
where fraud contends with honor for an entrance into the 
temple, that we read the heart of man better than in books. 
The great characteristic of New York is din and excite- 
ment, — everything to be done in a hurry, — all is intense 
anxiety. It is especially noticeable in the gTeatJ^thoroughfare 



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of Broadway ; where the noisje and confu.sion caused bv the 
incessant passmg and repassing of some 18;000 vehicles a 
■day, render it a Babel scene of confusion. 

New York has been ever and justly renowned for its 
catholic and liberal public beneflictions and charities. Among 
her many glories this is most conspicuous. New York may 
l3e called the asylum for the oppressed and distressed of all 
nations- Abounding in beneficent institutions suited to the 
relief of the various " ills that flesh is heir to," and enriched 
with the most liberal endowments for classical and popular 
instruction, she bears the palm in all that pertains to the 
moral, intellectual, and physical adv^ancement of society. It 
is true we are a mercantile and money -making people, but 
the empire city is an illustration of some of its noblest uses. 

By way of introduction to the city in detail, we rec- 
ommend the visitor hrst to get a bird's-eye view of it from 
the steeple of Trinity Church. A view from this elevation, 
over 320 feet in height, affords a good idea of the general 
extent and topography of the city. The tower is accessible 
to the public at any time of the day, excepting the hours de- 
voted to divine service, mornino- and afternoon. To facilitate 
the ascent of the church tower there are landing places ; at the 
first of these you have a fine view of the interior of this 
Cathedral-like edifice. At the next resting-place is the 
belfry, with its solenni chimes ; here, too, is a balcony, 
allowing us a first \lQ^\ of the city. Still higher up 
we gain a magnificent panoramic view of all we have 
left below us, — which amply repays our toilsome tour 
of many steps. The varegated scene stretches out in every 
direction, with new beauties, — north and south lies Broad- 
way, with its teeming multitudes and its numberless vehicles ; 
west and east are crowded streets of house-tops, terminating 
only with the waters of the inclosing Avaters. Looking east- 
ward, we see Wall Street immediately below us, with the 
Treasure' Building on the left, and a little further on the 
right the Custom House, the Wall Street Ferry, and 
the East Iliver, which separates New Y^ork from Brook- 
lyn, with the New York Bay stretching to the southeast, 
Sandy Hook, the Highlands of Neversink, and the coast of 
Staten Island. To the north-east, the eastern district of 
Brooklyn, formerly known as Williamsburg, the Navy 
Y^ard, <fec., and still further to the north, the rocky channel 



FURNITURE. 



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MAMF-UTIKERS OF 

Rictt & PLArfc 



;f urnituit and perorations; 

HARD WOOD DOORS, &^., 

Architectural Hard Wood Work, 

Wood Mantles, Pier and Mantle Frames and Wainscotincc 
made t^ order, from Designs, 

Nos. 99 & 101 Fonrtb Ave., New York. 

NEAR A. T. STEWART d- CO'S. 

Where a general assortment can he had at moderate prices. 

J^^ Formerly 475 Broadway. .M^ 



[UladBme L niichel, IViadame Hartley's 



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NEW YORK. 



IMPORTER OP ' 



NQe 423^ tlXTH AVi.. 



F^ew York. 



FreEli anil Eiiilisli Boaiiets, 
Roiiiifl Hats, 

FLOWERS. FEATHERS, 

Ribbons and Novelties. 



HISTORY OF NEW YORK, 49 

called Hurl-gate, so perilous to our Dutch forefathers ; near- 
by Randall and Blackw ell's Islands, with their City Asylums. 
Transferring our gaze to Broadway, we notice the Equitable 
Life Insurance Building, and Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s 
Building, which stand higher than all others, and on the 
next street the National Metropolitan Bank. Passing 
several fine marble buildings, we notice the Herald Office, 
corner of Ann Street, on the east side of Broadway, and 
opposite to it St. Paul's Church, then the Astor House, the 
Park, and the City Hall ; the brown stone building on the 
east side being that of the Times Office. Beyond the City 
Hall inclosure is Stewart's marble palace, then the Cit)^ Hos- 
pital, surrounded with trees, and opposite it. Judge Whiting's 
fine marble building ; further north are numerous elegant 
stores, including Brooks' brown stone structure, Lord & 
Taylor's marble edifice, St. Nicholas Hotel, the Metropoli- 
tan, and still further on in the distance, Grace Church, with 
its beautiful white spire. Union Park, &c. 

Turning to the opposite point of view, the Hudson river, 
with Jersey City, and Hoboken, with its beautiful walks, 
its distant hills and valleys ; on - this side of the river, the 
steamers, ships and docks. This superb river has been 
often compared with the Rhine for its picturesque beauty. 
We can here get but a faint idea of it, for its bold scenery 
is seen only after journeying some forty miles to the north ; 
we catch merely a glimpse of the Palisades, beginning at 
Weehawken and extending about twenty miles. Veering 
to the south, we see the fortified islets of the lower bay, 
' with Staten Island, Richmond, &c., with their numerous 
picturesque cottages, villas, and castellated mansions, and to 
the south-west, the Raritan bay, the Passaic river, leading 
to Newark, in the distance, &c. We are indebted to 
Miller'' s Strangers' Guide to the City of Neio Yorl\ for the 
foregoing history in which we have made some slight alter- 
ations. 



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NICKEL PLATING. 

17 Howard St., New York, 

Near Broadway (opposite Crosby Street.) 

The AMERICAN NICKEL PLATING CO., having greatly enlarged and extended 
their Works, are now prepared to make contracts for polishing and plating articles of almost 
any size or description, in either large or small quantities. 

The attention of manufacturers and others is respectfully invited to the following : 

NICKEL PLATING prevents RUST. It is ECONOMICAL, for it will save its cost 
in the increased durability given to an article, besides saving the trouble and expense of 
CLEANING. It gives a surface with the hardness of STEEL and the brilliancy of SILVER. 
It is cheaper than Silver Plating, and will last for years. 

Articles subject to action from HEAT or MOISTURE, or from exposure to Salt Water, 
or Alkalies of any kind, can be thoroughly protected with a coating of Nickel. 

In cases where a smooth or polished surface is not required, the expense is comparatively 
small. Steam Pipes, Rough Castings, Bolts, Railings, &c., can be preserved at a cost little- 
exceeding that of ordinary galvanizing. 

All articles destined for use in warm climates, or for frequent contact with the hands, 
should be Nickel Plated, to prevent corrosion. 

Among the articles on which it can be used to great advantage, are 

Harness and Saddlery Hardware, 

Stirrups, Bits, Wagon Trimmings, Hubs, Springs, Pole Tips and Braces, Pole Chains 
Kidney Links and Rings, Buckles, Rosettes, Snaps and Turrets, Lanterns and 

Stable Fixtures of all kinds. 

Builders' Hardware, 

Fire Grates and Fenders, Door Locks and Knobs, Bell Pulls, Bolts, and Window Catches, 

Drawer Pulls, Escutcheons, Speaking Tubes and Hat Pegs. 

Croton Water Faucets, and Plumbihg Fixtures, Chandeliers and Gas Brackets ; also 

Household Furnishing Goods, 

Knives, Forks, Spoons, Waiters, Water Coolers, Pitchers, Castors, Coffee Urns and 

Coffee Pots, Tea Sets, Lamps, Candlesticks, Shovels, Tongs, Smoothing and Fluting Irons, 

Boilers and Kettles, Pans and Hollow Ware, Spittoons and Stair Rods. 

Dental and Surgical Instruments of all kinds, Trusses and Supporters. 

Mathematical Instruments and Electrical Machines, Carpenters' Tools and Squares, &c., 

Engravers' Tools and Photographic Plates and Rollers. 

Theatrical Wardrobes, Spectacular Armor and Properties. 

Steam Pumps and Gauges, Engine Cylinders, Valves and Vacuum Pan Fittings for 

Sugar Refineries. 

Railway Car Fixtures and Materials. 

Steamboat, Ship and Yacht Work of all kinds, Capstans, Capstan Heads, Chains, Bolts and 

Screws, and Railings of any size or Pattern, Rowlocks and Speaking Trumpets. 

Reflectors Plated and Polished in the Finest Style. 

Plain and Ornamental Iron Work of all kinds. Iron Railings, Brackets and Standards, &c. 

Sewing Machines. 

Plain and Ornamental Trimmings for Safes, Knobs, Handles, Tips, Bolts, &c. 
Pistols, Muskets and Swords, Spurs and Armor, Fishing Rod Reels and Trimmings, Keys, 
Signs and Door Plates, Soda Water Apparatus, Show Cases, Frames, &c., &c. 
Articles of any size or shape. Rough Castings, and old work of all kinds, may be sent to 
our Factory, where it will be Polished and Plated in the best possible manner. 
Articles sent by Express will be promptly finished and returned immediately. 
The process will be explained, and Samples of work shown at the Factory. 

Afflerican Nickel Plating Corapany, 

ISTo. 17 Ho-ward toeet. 

Near Broadway, NE^A^ YORK. 



51 
CENTRAL PARK. 



ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY. 

It was about the year 1830 that the city of New York 
started from the quiet and steady progress that thus far had 
been its characteristic, and, with a suddenness ahnost start- 
ling, took the place, which it still holds and will continue to 
maintain, as the Metropolis of the Western Hemisphere. 

This change came so quickly that in a short time the 
entire elements of the city underwent a complete transform- 
ation. Business grew rapidly, population catne pouring in 
from all sides, building increased, and business interests be- 
gan that demand which is still unsatisfied, upon the premises 
used for residences. The city was soon de})rived of the 
quiet gardens and detached dwellings that had afforded an 
opportunity for pure air, their places beiug filled by solid 
blocks of houses and stores that increased the evil then plain- 
ly apparent of the want of breathing space. 

As population increased, it became a settled fact, that 
for the majority of the people, especially for those of limited 
means, escape from the city for a little rest or recreation was 
almost an impossibility. There was no place within the 
city limits in which it was pleasant to walk or ride ; no water 
on which it was safe lo row, no play-ground for children, no 
spot for the weary to rest body or brain in the conte mpla- 
tion of the beauties of nature. The localities accessible by 
water were too remote, or not of good repute ; and to the 
north of the city, there was only a barren waste, save for 
those whose means and leisure afforded a private equipage 
wherewith to enjoy the drives on Harlem Lane, and the 
Bloomino-dale Road. 

These facts, developed in the public mind a longing for 
a place where fresh air, grass, trees, and flowers, might be 
enjoyed Avitli little loss of time, and expenditure of money. 
It was about the year 1848 that the patient and long-suffer- 
ing people of New York, began to find that something must 
be done to supply this daily growing want. 

During this year, Mr. A. J. Dowing first gave public ex- 
pression, through the columns of the ^'Horiiculturist^^^ to 



Mme. S. p. Lovett, 




AND 



ILMllST. 



FashiouaMc Dress ant> Eloak Makinci, 

753 BroadAvay, ]N"eA^^ York, 

Three Doors below Eighth Street. 





J Estaislmieit, 

26 West 1 1th St., twelve doors f,om Bpoaclway, 

jManltactuker of 

Ladies' Cloa!(s, l/ianias, Suits, Jackets, Sacques, k 

A full assortment of Ladies' Underclothmg, Corsets, Skirts, Tumours and 
Evening Dresses in White Swiss Lawn, and Organdie, ready made, and made to order. 

Particular attention paid to risking up Family Mourning, on short notice. 



MADAME GERARD, 

Late Ti:h A. T. Stow:r*, i Oc, 

muMM mmm mmm> 



AND 



FRENCH MILLINERY, 

1 6 East Twelfth Street, near Fifth Avenue, N. Y. 

Lj-dies', Mihses', »ii<l Cliildjeiis' Dresses 
made to order in llie latent Parisian lashions, at tlie shortest notice. 

Miss Moore, 




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/A TO 



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Ball and Dinner Dresses, Cloaks, Walking Suits, &,c,, 

MADE TO ORDER. 



Cutting and Basting-. F*lain Patterns. 

BETWEEN I5TH AND i6TH STREETS. 



CENTRAL PARK 53 

this universal want of a great public park. In 1850 lie made 
a voyage to England for the purpose of observing the pro- 
gress there made in architecture and landscape gardening, 
and finding much in the public parks to excite his admira- 
tion and command attention, he again and more thoroughly 
advocated the idea he had already advanced, of a park for 
New York. 

In 1851, Mr. A. C. Kingsland, then the Mayor of the 
city, recommended to the common council that there should 
be prompt and efficient action taken upon the subject. This 
was the key-note from which the press and people took up 
the strain, and from that time it was a foregone conclusion 
that the people of New York must have a public park, ade- 
quate to their wants and worthy of the fame of the metro- 
polis. 

After many vicissitudes of a legislative character, and 
much discussion as to the location, the legislature passed an 
act on the twenty-first of July, 1853, authorising the city to 
take possession of the ground now known as the Central 
Park. 

The first commission, consisting of the mayor and street 
commissioner, was appointed May 19, 1856 ; they, desiring 
advice and assistance in the discharge of their duties, invited 
a board of seven gentlemen, of which Washington Irving was 
President, to consult with them upon the measures necessary 
to be taken to adapt the land, the city had acquired, to the 
purposes of the Park. 

They commenced operations according to a plan sub- 
mitted by the engineer who made the original surveys ; but 
it soon appeared that some change in the government of the 
work was essential to success, in April, 1857, a new commis- 
sion of eleven members was appointed, which, by its succes- 
sors, still controls the interests of the Park. The first act of 
this commission was to advertise for new plans, and on the 
twenty-first of April, 1858, a selection was made from thirty- 
three that had been submitted : the successful one being the 
united work of Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted and Mr. Calvert 
Vaux. The wisdom of the selection is now apparent in the 
successful fulfilment of the plan selected, which has been 
carried out in all its essential features, save at the upper 
end of the Park, where its extension from lOGth to 110th 
Streets rendered an entire modification necessary. 



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John Lobdell, / WE''^ YOB 

Howard Tinslet. )' itSAA.K* a^ ss#--^ 

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Floral Dress Trir.imiiigs Made to Order and Constantly on Hand. 

Specialt}' in Filling and Re-irran:.'ing Vases and Baskets. 



No. 9 Rue de Ciery, Paris. 661 & 563 Broadway. 

OR, H. H. WH8TEBVEIT, 

CHIROPODIST, 



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SCISNTIFICALLY TREATED. 



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Without Plates or Clasps, and "Without Extracting aay Teeth or Stumps, thereby 
preserving the Xuural Expression, which is generally disfigured after 

extraction. 

TEETH BUILT UPON STUMPS TO NATURAL SHAPE AND COLOR 



WITH OBSPLASTIC AND WITH >UT PALM, AT 



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SURGEON DENTIST TO THE WOMENS' HOSPITAL, 

Neir Broadway. 



CENTRAL PARK. ' 55 

LOCATION AND AREA. 

The Park occupies the paralellogram included within 59th 
Street on the south, 110th Street on the north, Fifth Avenue 
on the east, and Eighth Avenue on the west. The entire 
area is eight hundred and forty-three acres, of which one 
hundred and forty-one acres are occupied by the Croton 
Reservoirs, over forty-three acres by the waters of the Park, 
and of the remaining space one hundred and three acres are 
in drives', bridle-roads, and walks. 

COST. 

The total cost of the land $4,838,116 77 

The total expenditure for construction from 

May 1, 1857, to January 1, 1871, . . 6,330,732 50 

Total costrof the Park, January 1, 1871, $11,168,849 27 

The Park is open daily to the public during the months 
of December, January and February, from seven o'clock in 
the morning until eight o'clock in the evening ; during the 
months of March, April, May, October, and November, from 
six o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the evening ; 
and during the months of June, July, August and September, 
from five o'clock in the morning until eleven o'clock in the 
evening. 

CARRIAGE SERVICE. 

« 

Under the supervision of the commissioners, carriages are 
provided in which visitors can make a complete tour of the 
Park. They leave the Merchants' Gate, at Eighth Avenue 
and 59th Street, and the Scholars' Gate, at 5th Avenue and- 
59th Street, at short intervals during the day and early 
evening, making the trip within an hour and fifteen minutes. 
Twelve persons can be comfortably accommodated in each 
carriage, and they are not allowed to carry more. The fare 
is twenty-five cents ; no half price. 

REGULATIONS FOR HACKNEY COACHES. 

Extract from Rules issued from the Mayor's Office, January, 1871. 

" The rates of fare to be charged for the use of coaches 
shall be as follows : All around the Park, v/ith the privilege 



Sturtevant House Store, 

john^c'Tevin, 

DEALBR IN 

■LTOSIERY, 

Skirts, Corsets, Dress Linings, &c. 

o 

1 lOS BK-OAr)\^AY, 

East side, near ^Uh Street. 

A. L E. KORPF, 

1197 BROAD^VAY, 

Between 28th & 29th Sts. 



Sturtevant House Store. 



Berlin Embroideries, 

WORSTEDS, 

FINCY IRTICLtSS. 

Mlle. a-D. Franqois, 

J 11 

739 & 74 1 Broadway, 

OPPOSITE A3T0R PLACE, 

Klegr«nt Hair Work. 

Novelties in Coiffures, Fine Wigs made to order 
All Work of Live Human Hair. 



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and 
CREME, 



Merveilleuse. 



Inviluable, 
for the 

Complesicn. 



Boot and Shoe Store, 

397 SIXTH AVE.. N. K., 

Bet. Uth & Kth Sti. 



MANTTPACTURKR OT 



Umbrellas, Farasolg, 



AND 



1184 Broadway, 



AND 



16 Union Block, Saratoga, 



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S. 1. OLMSTEID, 

Manufacturers and Dealers in all grades of 

fiaop Skirts, Corsets, ac. 
781 Broadway, near 10th St., iY., 

Opposite A. T. Stewart & Go's. Entrance at Side Door. 

Headquarters for all the Novelties. Originator 

of the celebrated " Panier Muslin Front 

Hoop Skirts. 

Oldest Manufacturer i n the Trade. 

PRACTICAL 

Bttt &■ Sii^tts Halsr, 

AGENT FOR 

B. D. Godfrey's New and Improved 
Screw Made and Wire Qnilted Bottom 

BOOTS k SHOES, 



2S8Broadtvmj, N, Y. 

Two Doors below Warren St. 



A large assortment of Ladies', Gents' and 
Misses'7 Boots, Shoes and Gaiters constantly 
on hand. 

All kinds of work made to order. 



A. F. MULLER, 

Gentleieii's MuM Mi, 

1188 BBOADWAY, 

(STURTEVANT HOUSE, BET. 28tH & 29TH STS.) 

NETT YORK:. 
Branch of^ E. Uth Street, Union Square. 



SPECIALTY— Dress Shirts of superior quality 

constantly on hand and made to order in any 

style required, at short notice. 



CENTRAL PARK. 5T 

of keeping the coach' two hours, /owr dollars; principal parts 
of the Park, three dollars / to Casino and Lake, and return, 
two dollars; when engaged by the hour, two dollars per 
hour ; when for three or more hours, each one dollar and 
fifty cents per hour. 

" The drivers of coaches hired to drive in the said Park 
are required to wear a badge displayed on the left breast, in 
the shape of a shield, not to exceed two inches in diameter, 
and to have the number of his coach thereon, and to be worn 
continually when waiting for hire." 

POLICE. 

Policemen of the Park force are constantly on duty, and 
are easily distinguished by their neat gray uniform. Acts of 
lawlessness are extremely rare within the Park, and the 
duties of the police are almost exclusively confined to giving 
information to visitors ; it being a part of their prescribed 
duties to give full and complete replies to all questions re- 
garding the Park. The universal public testimony is, that 
for courtesy and efiiciency the Park police cannot be sur- 
passed. 

GATEWAYS AND APPROACHES. 

The greatest number of persons and carriages enter the 
Park by the Scholars' Gate, at the corner of Fifth Avenue 
and 59th Street. The improvements now in progress are 
rapidly making this gateway worthy of the noble avenue it 
adorns, and ere long it will be one of the most imposing of 
all the Park entrances. Its surroundings include an open 
plaza on the opposite corner, which greatly heightens the 
effect, by permitting a view of the Park from some distance 
down the avenue. 

Next in importance, measured by the count of persons 
and vehicles entering it, is the Merchants' Gate, at the 
corner of Eighth Avenue and 59th Street, the point where 
Broadway intersects Eighth Avenue, and from which 
the grand boulevard runs in a north-westerly direction. To 
prevent the crowding and confusion that would naturally 
result from the concentration of so many leading thorough- 
fares, a grand circle, that contributes greatly to the general 



Wholesale and Retail 




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648 BROADWAY, cor. Great Jones St. 



Of all the Newest and most Fashionalile Fabrics of the season, Cut, Trimmed and made 
■equal to custom work, at 40 per cent, less in price. Also all the newest staple Foreign and 
Dome.stic Styles, made to order, for gentlemen and boys, at 30 percent, less than 

regular Broadway prices. 

P. J. F. RANDOLPH. 



fiiii 111 AiHiimif 

BAHRETT, NEPHEWS & CO. 
Office, 5 & 7 John Street, New York. 

BRATSrCH OJET'F'ICES: 






1142 Broadway, near 26th Street, N. Y. 
279 (old No. 269) Falcon St. c. Tillary, B'klQ. 

ABJtt. C. WOOD, TroasurcrT 



47 North Eighth Street, Philadelphia. 
110 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore. 

NATHAN M. HEAL, President. 



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820 BBOaOWaV. 



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OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 



LAMBRAQUINS, CURTAINS & OORNIOES. 



ALSO, 



Trench Cylinder and Counting-house Furniture. 



CENTRAL PARK. 59 

■effect of this entrance, has been hiid out directly opposite 
the gateway. 

After those just described, the Farmers' and Warriors' 
gates on 110th Street — the former at Sixth Avenue and the 
latter at Seventh Avenue — are of the greatest consequence. 
These two avenues are being converted into boulevards, 
and will be planted with double rows of trees, thus com- 
pleting magnificent drives through Park and boulevard, 
from 59th Street to the Harlem River. 

The improvements now being rapidl}^ pushed forward 
on all the approaches to the Park, with sleejDless energy so 
indicative of the metropolitan spirit, are a':'ranged with 
special reference to its attractions, and will, ere long, form 
worthy setting of the city's gem. 

The names of the gateways have been a subject of much 
interest, and those selected happily illustrate the fact, that 
the Central Park is the people's pleasure-ground, common 
to all, regardless of rank or caste. It seems especially 
fitting that Youth and Age, Peace and War, Art, Literature, 
Commerce, Mechanics and Husbandry should be represented 
in these titles, which will eventuall}^ be illustrated by the 
symbolic architecture of the completed- gateways. 

Below is a list of the names and locations of the several 
■entrances : 

Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, The Scholars' Gate. 

Sixth Avenue and 59th Street, The Artists' Gate. 

Seventh Avenue and 59th Street, The Artisans' Gate. 

Eighth Avenue and 59th Street, The Merchants' Gate. 

Eighth Avenue and 72d Street, The Women's Gate. 

Eighth Avenue and 79 th Street, The Hunters' Gate. 

Eighth Avenue and 85th Street, The Mariners' Gate. 

Eighth Avenue and 96th Street, The Gate of All-Saints. 

Eighth Avenue and 100th Street, The Boys' Gate. 

Fifth Avenue and 72 d Street, The Children's Gate. 

Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, The Miners' Gate. 

Fifth Avenue and 90th Street, The Engineers' Gate. 

Fifth Avenue and 96th Street, The Woodmans' Gate. 

Fifth Avenue and 102d Street, The Girls' Gate. 

Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, The Pioneers' Gate. 

Sixth Avenue and 110th Street, The Farmers' Gate. 

Seventh Avenue and 110th Street, The Warriors' Gate. 

Eighth Avenue and 110th Street, The Strangers' Gate. 



ChEILLEY pAP^lS Jim pLOVES. 



MME. A. I^EUVILLE, 

(Late 917 Broadwa.r, ) 

SKIRTS TO ORDER, 



42, Uaiv©psitx ^taa©. 

Cor. nth St., IV'EW YORK. 






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AND ENGLISH ROUND HATS, 

in Constant receipt of the 

latest Novelties in Flowers Feathers, k, 
NO. 413 SIXTH AVENUE, 

Bet. 25tli and 2Gth St. 



Phelps, Jewett & Co., 

Manufictiireis and Dealers at Wholesale and Eetail in 

Babinet Pumitupo, 

MATTRESSES, &cc., 

264 & 266 CANAL ST., 

Near Broad^vay, Ne^W York. 



Madame Franciska Klein, 
Mde in fmhroiderie^, 



279 Bowery, 



S. E. CORNER OF HOUSTON ST., N. Y. 



E. Gillett, 

174 SIXTH AV.,nearl2th St. 



Carte de Visite, per doz. 

" Imperial, " 
8 .\ 10 Photograph, . . , 



$2 so 
5 00 
2 oo. 



Small Pictures Enlarged, Colored in 
Oil, Water Colors or India Ink. 

Caricatures to order. 75 coitK cacli. Fcrro- 
tijpcs iif cvi.ri) (JcscriiAiou. 



Miss J. S. Starling, 

Drcss-Makinci & Paitern 

385 SIXTH AVENUE, 

EeUeen 23d and 24th Streets, 
Late of " Le Bon Ton" Office, Ne W York. 

Jaylor's ^ystem Jaught. 



L MORGAN HOWS, 

23 EAST 17th STREET, 

ONE DOOR WEST OF BROADWAY, 

NEW YORK. 



Mk^' B'icncf) (^M^m, 
CORSET MAKER, 

(FROM PARIS) 

Imported Lace Goods, 
Only the Finest kind of Corsets, 



225i SIXTPI AA^ENUE. 



CENTRAL PARK. 61 



THOROUGHFARES. 



The reo-ulations of the Park exclude all vehicles of a 
business character from the pleasure drives; and to obviate 
the inconvenience incident to the interruption of travel 
across the city for so great a space, four traverse roads, 
which are carried entirely across the Park by excavations 
below the level of the ground, have been constructed for 
the accommodation of ordinary traffic. So ingeniously have 
these road-ways been located that the visitor is scarcely 
aware of their existence, and, indeed, a remarkable aptness 
has been displayed in the arrangement of all the drives, 
bridle-paths, and walks, each being so independent of the 
other that the entire Park may be traversed either on foot, 
horseback, or in a carriage, without one class interfering 
with another. 

There are nine and one-half miles of drives, varying in 
width from forty-five to sixty feet; there are five and one- 
half miles of bridle-paths, twenty-five feet in width; and 
twenty-seven and one-half miles of foot-walks, the latter fol- 
lowing all the drives, but leading as well to many most 
beautiful spots, which are entirely lost to the visitor who 
only views the Park from a carriage. 

THE CROTON RESERVOIRS. 

These Reservoirs, so prominent in the scenery of the 
Park, and so important to the comfort and health of the city, 
were projected, and one of them completed, long l^efore the 
occupation of the site of the Park for its present purpose. 
The Old or Lower Reservoir is a parallelogram in form, one 
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six feet long, and eight 
hundred and thirty -five feet wide, covering an area of tliirty- 
one acres, and capable of containing one hundred and fifty 
million gallons of water. It is divided into two sections, one 
with a depth of twenty, and the other of thirty feet. Its 
walls of solid masonry are twenty feet wide at the top, and 
gradually increase in thickness toward the base. 

The New Reservoir was constructed simultaneously with 
the Park itself, the old one being insufficient for the needs 
of the increasing population of the city. It lies directly 
north of the latter, and extends almost the entire width of 
the Park, having an irregular form and an area of one hun- 




On the fl. E. cor. 42d St., and Blh Ave,, 

ClM>KI« 'IMK riKN'J'UAJ, HWiSHH ii.\SK), 

VVli'-n- liiMlx". ;mi(I (i<-n\\iiii<\\ c.jiti Hiqjply tlM'tfiH(rlv<!H with 

Trunks, Travelling and: Shopping Rag8>^ 

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RfjpJiiringf Specially att^jivJod to. 

ORIEN'J AL Cr^EAM, 

on 

48 BOND STREET, N, Y. 



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85 NASSAU STREET, N. Y. 

Tmportor ot Human Hair. 

Ladies' Hair Dresser, ¥/if> Maker, k^., 

:il7 SIXTH AVI'INIIK, NKW VOUK, 



ICviry (If-^f ii|.li'.n 1.1 ' (UNAMKNI Al, I I A 1 1/ W<<I'K, d.i l.iidii-^' iilirl d Ijllrdii-n'-. Wciir, III 

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CENTRAL PARK. 63- 

drecl and six acres, with a maxiniiiin capacity of one thousand 
millions of gallons. The summits of the walls of both reser- 
voirs afford pleasant })romenades and extensive views, while 
the skill of the architects and landscape gardeners has ren- 
dered the presence of these structures a source of satisfaction 
rather than of regret. 

GENERAL FEATURES. 

The Park is so naturally divided Into two parj:s by the 
New or Upper Reservoir, that by common ccmsent they are 
designated the Upper and Lower Park ; this division we ac- 
cept, and arrange the description accordingly. 

It is our purpose only to mention the several points of 
interest as they are encoiaitered in passing Ironi the southern 
to the northern end of the Park, and not to follow any special 
route. 

TlfE LOWER I'ARK. 

This section of the Park is that lying below the New 
Reservoir, and is the portion upon which the laigcr amount 
of labor in the adornment and improvement of the grounds 
has been expended. The chief features are the Mall, the 
Terrace, the Lake and the Ramble; all of which, with the 
other leading points of interest, are noticed in the following- 
pages. 

THE UrrMBOLDT MONUMENT. 

The first object that attracts attention on entering the 
Park from Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, is a bust in 
bronze of Alexander Von ILnnboldt, surmounting a, gianite 
pedestal. It is the work of Professor Rlaiser, of Rerlin, and 
was presented by the German citizens of New York. Tlie 
unveiling of this monument on the fourteenth of September, 
18G9, the centennial anniversary of Von llLunboldt's birth, 
was an occasion of great public interest. 

THE STATUE OE (JOMMERCE 

Is appropriately placed neai- the Merchant's ({ate, at the 
Eighth Avenue and 51)th Street entrance. It is the gift of 
Mr. Stephen R. Ciuion, a native of New York, long resident 
in .Liverpool, and is from the hand of Fosquet, a French, 
artist of reputation and al)ility. 



MRS. S. -A.. JVIOODY'S 

PA TENT SELF-ADJUSTING 



This Corset is recommended by 
as an invaluable remedial agent in all " 
bemia, or spinal difficulties. It is 
health to the suflering, and the most 

Instrnctious for self-measurement 

17 West Eleventh Street, 

"Wholesale and Retail. 




distinguished members of the Pacult}-, 
uterine and pelvic diseasss, umbilical 
scientifically constructed, a restorer of 
perfect fitting for dress purposes. 

free by mail. 

1). BVlway k University PI. 



A/Vliolesale and Retail. 



Patent Abdcninul Oorsst. 



The Old Chambers Street Candy Manufactory, 



ESTABLISHED 1806. 



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Wholesale and Retail Strictly pure Steam Refined 

Cor. Chambers and Hudson Sts, 

And 114r9 BROADW^AY, bet. 26tli and 27tli Sts. 



Robert A. Ridley 
Wm. A. Fritz. 



^7Vn-l. Kennedy. 
Wnri. Force. 



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G. ITITORGH, 

Destroys all tlie Moths as well as their eggs, from any piece of furniture or wearing apparel, by Ms 

Patented Moth-Destroying Apparatus. 

He also makes all animal and vegetable fibre unfit as food for Moths without injuring the fibre 
in the least. In fact, all Furniture treated in his improved Machine will be made more durable 
than it ever was before — all the injurious moisture being driven out. 

Old as well as New Furniture "will be thus cleaned, and warranted from further injury. 

C. ^VOIiCH, 

No. I lO Fourth Avenue, near I Sth St., New York. 

Pine Crinolines and Prench Corsets. 



THE MODEL SKIRT STORE. 



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175, 347, and 641 Sixth Avenue, BMew York. 

Bet. 12th and 13th, 21st and 22d, S7th and 38th Streets. 



Fine French Coutil and French and German Corsets of the 
most elegant shape. 

French hand-made Corsets, to fit the form, to order. 



CENTRAL PARK. 65 



THE POND. 



In the extreme south-eastern angle of the Park, on the 
left of the entrance by the Scholars' Gate, the pond forms a 
pretty and attractive feature in the scenery. It has an ex- 
tent of about five acres, and is largely artificial, being formed 
to a great degree by the natural drainage of the ground. In 
the winter season it is the resort of many skaters, as its prox- 
mi ty to the principal entrance makes it more convenient of 
access than the larger Lake by the Terrace. 

THE MUSEUM. 

A short distance north-east of the Pond, and near the 
Fifth Avenue boundary, is the old Arsenal, now known as 
" The Museum." It was formerly owned by the State, but 
was purchased by the city in 1856 for the sum of two hun- 
dred and seventy-five thousand dollars. The first floor is 
mainly devoted to the ofiices of administration of the Park; 
the centre portion, however, is open to visitors, and contains 
a copy of Houdin's bronze statue of Washington, a statue of 
Columbus in marble, by Miss Emma Stebbins, and several 
other interesting objects. The second and third floors are 
devoted to a collection of prepared specimens of animals, 
birds, fish, reptiles and shells, that forms the beginning of the 
American Museum of Natural History, for which a building 
has been projected on Manhattan Square. The Meterological 
Observatory finds accomodation in a large upper room, where 
a number of curious instruments record the doing's of wind 
and weather. It is the intention of the commissiners to add 
an Astronomical Observatory, when the necessary buildings 
shall have been provided. 

In and around the Museum are kept the already large 
number of animals that form the nucleus of the collection 
for the Zoological Gardens ultimately to be located in the 
portion of the Park near the meadows. Nearly all these 
animals have been donated to the Park, and form not the 
least of its many attractions. 

THE DAIRY 

Is a picturesque Gothic structure, situated directly north of 
the pond and contiguous to the south transverse road, which 

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W, A. H AYITITARD, 

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CENTRAL PARK. 67 

it is SO connected that all supplies may be received indepen- 
dently of the Park thoroughfares. Here pure milk and 
similar refreshments, more especially suited to the appetites 
of children, are supplied at a moderate cost. 
A short distance southwest from the Dairy is 

THE children's PLAYGROUND, 

Especially intended for the use of small children. It has a 
number of swings and a house with constant attendants for 
their accommodation. In the centre, upon an elevated plateau 
is a' spacious vinery, beneath which are walks, rustic seats, 
and tallies. Here the little ones may enjoy themselves and 
not be interrupted by the rougher sports of 

THE boys' PLAYGROUND, 

Which is still further to the west and occupies a large open 
space also south of traverse road No. 1. Here is a commodi- 
ous house erected for the accommodation of the ball-players, 
who are allowed the use of the ground on Monday, Thursday, 
and Saturday afternoons. 

THE CAROUSAL. 

By the path leading from the first to the second of the 
above playgrounds, is the Carousal, a circular building con- 
taining a great number of hobby horses which move around 
a large circle by means of machinery. Here boys and girls 
may enjoy a mimic horseback ride for a fee of ten cents. 

THE MARBLE ARCH, 

Is located immediately west of the southern end of the Mall, 
and is one of the most elegant and costly structures within 
the Park, being the only one in which marble is exclusively 
used. It carries the carriage-drive over the foot-path, which 
enters it at one end on a level, while at the other a double 
stairway, leading to the right and left, leads up to the Mall. A 
maple bench on both sides affords a welcome rest to the 
weary pedestrian on a hot summer day, and in a niche 
opposite the upper end of the arch, beyond the stairway, is a 
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CENTRAL PARK. 69 



THE INDIAN HUNTER. 



By the main drive, just west of the Marble Arch, is a 
spirited group in bronze, representing an Indian hunter 
watching his game, and holding his eager dog in check ; farther 
to the north, at the right of the same drive, half hidden in 
the shrubbery, is another group in bronze, eagles destroying 
a goat. 

THE TREES PLANTED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES, 

During his visit to this country in the autumn of 1860, — an 
English oak and an American Elm , — are thriving finely. They 
may be found west of the centre of the Mall, between the 
foot-path and drive. 

THE GREEN. 

Following the drive that crosses Marble Arch, as it leads 
to the west and changes direction northward, a broad lawn of 
fifteen acres, designated as " The Green," is revealed. In the 
proper season a large flock of South Down sheep pasture here 
attended by a shepherd, and supply a simple feature of rural 
life, contrasting pleasantly with those other portions of the 
Park where art has done so much to beautify and please. 

THE SPA 

Is on the north side of the Green, and west of the Mall. The 
building is highly decorated in arabesque; Messrs. Schultz 
& Walker, the celebrated manufacturers of artificial mineral 
waters, are in charge, and supply the waters to visitors at 
five and ten cents per glass. 

THE MALL. 

The prominent feature of the Lower Park is the Mall, a 
straight walk which starts from a point just east of the Mar- 
ble Arch, and extends in a northerly direction for a distance 
of twelve hundred and twelve feet, or nearly a quarter of a 
mile. The whole width is two hundred and eight feet ; and 
throughout its entire length there is, on each side, a double 
row of American elms. Comfortable seats are distributed 
at convenient intervals, and drinking fountains at both ends 
afford refreshment for the thirsty. A statue of Shakespeare, 



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Successor to E. A. HONEYWELL, 
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CENTRAL PARK. 71 

the gift of a number of citizens of New York, through the 
Shakespeare Dramatic Association, is to be placed at the 
southeast corner of the walk. At the proper season a num- 
ber of miniature carriages, drawn 1^ goats, and attended by- 
coachmen in livery, are run upon the Mall for the amuse- 
ment of children, who may enjoy a ride in mimic state, up 
and down the length of the walk at a charge of fifteen cents. 
The Mall terminates at the northern end in a spacious square 
or plaza, which is ornamented with two very pretty foun- 
tains, and gilded bird-cages mounted on pedestals. In the 
summer, when the sun is oppressive, a portion of this space 
is covered with an awning and provided with seats where 
visitors may rest. In close proximity to this plaza, and 
west of the north end of the promenade is 

THE MUSIC STAND. 

An elaborate structure, decorated with gilding and bright 
colors, from which, on Saturday afternoons, in the summer 
and autumn, an excellent band discourses beautiful music. 

THE VINERY 

Is a delightful bower of rustic work, over which are trained 
wisterias, honeysuckle, and rose vines. It is situated just 
east of the upper end of the Mall, convenient to the Music 
Pavilion and Casino, at a point commanding an excellent 
view of the Terrace, Lake, and Ramble. 

THE CARRIAGE CONCOURSE 

Is an open square adjoining the Vinery, affording visitors 
in carriages access to the Casino, and is a convenient place 
to pause and enjoy the music of the band without alighting. 

THE CASINO 

Is a neat and tasteful cottage structure designed for a ladies' 
refreshment house, where a well-ordered restaurant is main- 
tained, and although a private business, like the Refectory 
at Mount St. Vincent, is still under the supervision and con- 
trol of the Park Commissioners. It is pleasantly located 
just at the edge of the Carriage Concourse, and overlooking 



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all the attractions of the Terrace and vicinity. In the sum- 
mer season refreshments are served from the Casino upon 
tables in the Terrace Arch. 

THE MORSE STATUE. 

Southeast from the Casino, at the jDoint where the car- 
riage road leads from the main drive to the Carriage Con- 
course, is placed the bronze statue of Prof. S. F. B. Morse 
the inventor of the electric telegraph. The figure, which is 
of the heroic size, was moulded by Byron M. Pickett, and: 
cast at the National Fine Art Foundry, by Maurice J. Power- 
It was procured by small subscriptions from the telegraphers 
of the United States. The granite pedestal, which supports 
it was provided by personal friends of Prof. Morse. 

The statue was unveiled June 10, 1871, with impressive 
ceremonies, in the presence of an immense audience, including 
the Professor himself. The fact that this work of art is a 
graceful tribute from the grateful people to living genius, sur- 
rounds it with an unusual and special interest. 

" AULD LANG SYNE." 

By the foot-path, in the grounds east of the Casino near- 
the main drive and north of the Morse Statue, is a group in 
brown stone, by Robert Thompson, illustrating Burn's poem 
of " Auld Lang Syne." Although only a few feet from the 
drive, it is not visible unless approached by the foot-path. 

THE BRONZE STATUE OF THE TIGRESS, 

May be found a short distance west of the Terrace, to the 
right of the drive. It represents a tigress in act of bringing 
food to her cubs, and was presented to the Park by twelve 
gentlemen, residents of New York. It is six feet high, seven 
and a half feet long, and is the production of the celebrated 
Auguste Caine. 

THE TERRACE. 

Dividing the plaza at the upper end of the Mall from the 
carriage drive that intervenes between it and the Terrace is 
a magnificent screen work of Albert freestone, with two 
openings through which persons can enter the Mall from. 



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CENTRAL PARK. 75 

their carriages, or from it cross the drive to stairway that 
leads to the Terrace below. These stairs, which are displayed 
in the frontispiece, are worthy of the closest examination, for 
it will be seen on descending that no two of the many panels 
at the sides are alike, and it is their beauty and ingenuity 
rather than mere variety that make them the objects of ad- 
miration. The decoration is based upon forms of vegetation 
symbolic of the Four Seasons, and surpasses the decorative 
sculpture on any public building in America. 

Pursuant to the theory that every visitor, whether walking 
riding, or driving, may visit the entire Park in his own way 
without interference, and to provide another means of access 
from the Mall to the Terrace, so that pedestrians may not 
embarrass drivers nor expose themselves to danger by cros- 
sing the crowded roadway at this point, a stairway has been 
constructed from the plaza to the end of the ]\Iall, to the level 
of the Terrace below, terminating in an arcade that passes 
under the drive. Tlie floor and ceiling are finished in elabo- 
rate patterns of encaustic tile, and the stone-work is every- 
where beautifully carved. The plan for the hall or arcade, 
for the stairways leading to it. as well as for the stairway 
from the drive to the Terrace, embraces many artistic embel- 
ishments that cannot be carried into effect for some years to 
come. 

Having passed over one or the other of the stairways lead- 
ing from the upper level, the visitor reaches the Terrace, a 
broad esplanade which stretches north to the margin of the 
Lake. It is inclosed with a low wall of carved stone which 
is pierced with three openings, one on either side from which 
foot-paths lead northward, and one on the water-front whence 
visitor may take the boats for a row on the lake. 

In the centre' is a fountain with a spacious basin, still in- 
complete (there being certain bronze castings for its orna- 
mentation to arrive from Munich), yet beautiful and very 
attractive. At either corner on the water front is a tall 
ma^t, from one of which floats a standard with the arms of 
the State, while the other bears a similar emblem with the 
arms of the City. 

THE LAKE. 

From the Terrace the attention is turned naturally toward 
the Lake, frequently mentioned as the Central Lake. This 



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CENTRAL PARK. 77 

sheet of water stretches away from the front of the Terrace 
to the west and north, in an eccentric outline of bays and 
headlands, which, with the little islands that dot the surface, 
the dense woods of the eastern and northern shore, the elab- 
orate Terrace on the southern side, the boats, swans and 
ducks floating upon the surface, combine to produce a most 
picturesque effect. It is divided into two equal parts by the 
Bow Bridge (so-called from its form), an iron structure which 
connects the foot-path on the southernly side with the Ram- 
ble on the opposite shore. West from this bridge is the Bal- 
cony Bridge which crosses a small arm of the Lake at a 
point near Eighth Avenue and 77th Street. The swans are 
not the least interesting feature of the Lake. Twelve of them 
were originally, the gift of the city of Hamburg. Nine of 
these dying, twelve more were presented from the same 
source, to which were added fifty from some gentlemen in 
London. Of the original seventy-two, twenty-eight died, and 
the remainder with their progeny remain to do the elegant 
upon the Lake. The swans, and also the white ducks that 
bear them company, are very tame, and come readily at a 
call. The popularity of the iDoats upon the Lake is evident 
from the fact that during the year 1869, no less than one 
hundred and twenty-six thousand persons availed themselves 
of the opportunity for this amusement. There are two 
classes of boats, the omnibus, which have fixed rates of fare 
for the round trip, and the call boats that go at the pleasure 
of the passengers. The charges are moderate, and the re- 
muneration to the lessee quite small for so extensive a busi- 
ness. The boats may be taken at the Terrace, and may be 
left at one of the six pretty boat-houses that adorn the shores 
of the Lake. 

It is, however, in the winter season that the Lake and 
other waters of the Park furnish attraction to the greatest 
number. 

The care exercised that the ice may be kept in the proper 
order for skating purposes, is fully appreciated by the many 
thousands that throng to the Park when "the ball" is up, 
and when under a few simple and reasonable restrictions 
any one may come and enjoy this exhilarating winter sport. 
The northern end of the western portion of the Lake is reserv- 
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CENTRAL PARK. ^^- 

here find an opportunity to enjoy the national game of cur- 
ling. This game is gi'owing greatly in popularity under the- 
encouragement and approval of the Park Commissioners. 
Commodious houses, so constructed as to be readily removed 
at the close of the season, are erected during the winter ort 
the margin of the Lake for the accomodation and refreshment 
of spectators, skaters, and curlers. 

THE RAMBLE. 

After the Lake, the Ramble is the natural attraction. It 
covers a piece of ground of about thirty-six acres sloping 
upward from the northern shores of the Lake to the old Cro- 
ton Reservoir, and is bounded on both sides by the great 
drive, from which access may be gained by foot-paths at the 
northwest and' northeast corners of the Ramble, although 
the principal avenue of approach is by the Bow Bridge 
across the narrow part of the Lake. The Ramble is a laby- 
rinth of wooded walks abounding in sequestered nooks, rus- 
tic bridges over little brooks, wild vines and flowers, sum- 
mer-houses and seats of rustic make, occasional little patches 
of lawn, all clustering so naturally that the agency of art 
scarcely seems apparent. It is not surprising that the Ram- 
ble has more loving friends than any other portion of the 
Park, when it is considered how many are the attractions it 
offers. The Lake shore is beautiful at every point; fine 
views every where reveal themselves; foreign birds as peli- 
cans, storks, cranes, and herons, have here their home; and 
for the pleasant chat of friends, the quiet enjoyment of a 
book, or simple rest from toil, the Ramble has abundant ac- 
commodation. More pretentious descriptions than this ut- 
terly fail of justice to its beauties. 

THE MONUMENT TO SCHILLER. 

The German poet, is placed in the western part of the Ram- 
ble, near the shore of the northern arm of the Lake. 

THE CAVE. 

At the base of the extreme western slope of the Ramble^ 
is the Cave, an interesting spot, partly natural and partly 
artificial. A steep path leads to the foot of a large rockj 



DENTISTRY 



This method of constructing artificial Dentures combines four 
important advantages not previously attained. 

First. — By means of a beautiful flesh -colored enamel, the Teeth 
are garnished with an artificial continuous gum roof and lugse of the 
mouth, (without seam or crevice) with all the delicate tints and 
shades peculiar to those of nature. 

Second. — A truthful expression is given to the Teeth, by 
arranging them either symmetrically or irregularly, as different 
persons may require. 

Third. — The sunken portions of the face can be restored by 
means of attachments, or prominence made upon the Denture, of 
such form and size as meet the requirements of each particular case. 

Fourth. — No metal plate or unnatural appearing substance can 
be seen in the mouth of the wearer, when laughmg, singing or 
yawning. In short the inventors copy from nature in thus truth, 
fully representing the dental organs, and restoring the natural form 
and expression of the mouth and face. The Official Eeports, (with 
corresponding awards) from Europe and America upon Artificial 
Dentistrv, are as follows : 

Report from the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Class G, Group 2. 

The Jury on Dentistry at the Champ de Mare, report that — 

" The specimens of coniinuous gum sets of Teeth upon platinum plate by J. Allen & Son, 
of New York, are incomparably the most beautiful pieces exhibited." 

Le Ministre Vice-President de la Commission Imperial^ 
Paris le ler JnUiet, 1867. DE FORBADE. 

Report from the Judges on Dentistry, American Inst. N. Y. Oct. 1867 

Case A'o. 508, Mounted Artificial Teeth, on Platinum Base, by J. Allen & Son, 
No. 22 Bond Street, New York City. 

" The best on Exhibition. Their merits are s'rength, durability, cleanliness and adaptation to 
«very conceivable physiognomical requirement of the Teeth, and color of the Gums. 

HORACE GREELY. President, 
JOHN W. CHAMBERS, Recordi>-g Secketakt. 

The following Complimentary Card from Paris corrotorates the foregoing Reports. 

Paris. December 26, 1867. 
The undersigned Dentists herebv certify that thev examined all the Artificial Dentures 
exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 18R7, "in this City, and they unhesitatingly state that the 
epecimeni! of ContiniiouB Gum Work, exhibited by Dr. John Allen & Son, of New York, were 
beyond comparison the finest on exhibition. 

Dr. J. B. Ralenbteln, 8 Boul. des Capucines. 

Chas. A. Du BoucHET, M.D., D.D.S., 3 Rue de la Paix. 

E. B. Loud, 11 Boulevard Malerherbes. 

Drs. Parmily, 3") Boul. des Capucines. 

Wm. Imris, 42 Rue de Luxembourg. 

Nelson B. Gregory, 43 Rue de Luxembourg. 

J. W. Crane, 21 Boul. des Capucines. 

M. Delapierre, Surg. Dentist in Chief to Hospitals in Brussels, Belgium^ 

MANY OTHER REPORTS, MEDALS, ETC, MAY BE SEEN AT 

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CENTRAL PARK. 81 

and turning sharp to the left the Cave is entered at a level ; 
the entrance is dark, but a few steps reveal the light, and 
afford an outlook upon the Lake. From the other side, a 
series of rocky steps lead to the top of the rock over the 
Cave. 

THE BELVEDERE 

Is a Norman Gothic structure siiuated on a large rock that 
pierces the wall of the old Reservoir at its southwestern 
angle. It not only provides a pleasant place of rest and 
shelter, but is an excellent post of observation, being the 
highest point in the Park. It can be approached only on 
foot, but should not therefore be omitted by the visitor who 
desires to visit all the interesting portions of the Park. 

THE TUNNEL 

Has been excavated throuo-h the rock almost beneath the 
Belvedere and north of the Ramble, for the accommodation 
of the traffic road that crosses the Park at 79tli Street. It 
is one hundred and forty-six feet long, and seventeen feet 
ten inches high, and is chiefly interesting as illustrating the 
great expenditure of time, labor, and money necessary to 
perfect the attractions of the Park. 

CONSERVATORY LAKE. 

Conservatory Lake is an ornamental piece of water, of 
two acres in extent, lying contiguous to the Fifth Avenue, 
between 73d and 75th Street, and is a feature of a charming- 
plan, embracing both conservatory and flower-garden, upon 
which work is now in progress. During much of the time 
that the building is going forward the water is drawn off 

THE EVERGKEEN WALK, 

Near the Fifth Avenue, and south of the entrance by the 
Miners' Gate at 79th Street, a pretty piece of landscape 
gardening, was first laid out in 1862. It increases in 
interest and importance with the growth of the trees, and 
includes circles within cir/^les of walks, inclosed by neatly 
trimmed hedges, the whole encircled by a thicket of 
shrubbery and trees that serves to conceal the plan of the 
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CENTRAL PARK. 83 

THE DEER PADDOCK 

Will be found north of the entrance by the Miners' Gate, at 
Fifth Avenue and 79th Street. It contains several moose 
and a large number of ordinary deer. 

THE PASTURAGE FOR HORNED CATTLE 

Is directly north of the Deer Paddock, and, in the summer 
season, there may be seen here a number of rare animals, 
among others, African Buffalo, Asiatic zebu, with English, 
Irish, and Spanish neat cattle. 

THE MAZE 

Has been recently completed, and is located east of the New 
Reservoir and south of the third transverse road. Within 
the inclosure are thirty-seven hundred feet of gravel walk, 
and twenty-two hundred and fifty trees, arranged so as to 
render and attempt to reach its central point, or to find a 
place of exit somewhat amusing and difhcult. When the 
trees are sufficiently grown to conceal the paths, the Maze 
will be a source of much amusement, but at present will 
hardly repay the time and the trouble necessary to find it. 

MANHATTAN SQUARE. 

On the 8th Avenue, between 67th and 81st streets, will be 
the location of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History, and such kindred institu- 
tions as may be authorized by the Commissioners of the 
Park. 

THE KNOLL, 

Or, as sometimes called, Summit Rock, is in the extreme 
western portion of the Park, opposite the upper section of 
the old Reservoir. Being of easy ascent, its height is quite 
deceptive ; but it well repays the trouble of a visit, as it 
commands one of the most extensive views to be had in the 
Park. 

THE UPPER PARK. 

All of that portion of the Park lying north of the New Re- 
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CENTRAL PARK. 85 

with the Lower Park by the drive, bridle-road, and foot- 
path. This section has not received the amount of elabora- 
tion that has been bestowed upon the Lower Park, but should 
not on that account be neglected by the visitor. The special 
objects of interest are not numerous ; but the landscape has 
a bold, free character, the drives have longer sweeps and 
stretches, the elevation and depressions are more marked, 
and the views from the higher points abundantly reward the 
time, trouble, and strength consumed in seeking them. The 
most prominent features will be found noted in detail in the 
following pages. 

MOUNT ST. VINCENT. 

The thoroughfares that lead from the Lower Park pass 
entirely around a large open space north of the New Reser- 
voir, denominated the East and West Meadows, the roadway 
on the east sidie leading beyond to Mount St. Vincent. The 
building here located was formerly occupied by the Roman 
Catholic Academy, now on the Hudson near Yonkers. It 
is now used principally for a restaurant, where capital 
dinners and excellent refreshments are provided by the pro- 
prietors, Messrs. Radford & Ryan. The former chapel is 
fitted for the exhibition of the casts of the late Mr. Craw- 
ford's sculptures, eighty-seven in all, which were presented 
to the Park, by his widow, in I860. Other apartments in 
in this building are being fitted up as a museum. 

OLD FORTIFICATIONS. 

Close to the northeast corner of the Park, and forming a 
pretty point from which to overlook the Harlem Meer, are 
the remains of earthworks erected during the war of 1812. 
They have been neatly turfed over, but preserved as nearly 
as possible in their original form. 

THE BLOCK-HOUSE. 

Considerably to the west of the earthworks, beyond the 
Lake and near the Warriors' Gate, which opens upon Seventh 
Avenue, is a small block -house, a relic of 1812, which was 
used either as a magazine or fortification. This and the 
earthworks were links in the chain of fortifications that ex- 
tended across the north end of the island, of which abund- 
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CENTRAL PARK. 87 

THE POOL, LOCH, AND HARLEM MEER. 

These three bodies of water are essentially one, being con- 
nected with and flowing into each other. The waters flow 
from the Pool at 101st Street, a short distance from the 
western wall, under the drive into the Loch ; thence easterly 
in a small streamlet to the Meer, which extends to the north- 
eastern boundary of the Park at Fifth Avenue and 110th 
Street. A footpath runs along the margin of the water, and 
over rustic bridges by foaming little cascades and quiet 
pools, to many very beautiful and sequestered spots. 

THE GREAT HILL. 

This elevation, commonly called " The View," about mid- 
way between the Pool and the northern boundary, is a 
central feature in the northwestern portion of the Park. Its 
tiltitude is not quite so great as the Knoll, but it appears 
much higher on account of the greater depressions about it. 
There is a carriage concourse at the top, whence there is a 
comnmnding view, extending from the Hudson to the East 
River and the Sound, including a remarkable variety of 
scenery and interesting incident. 

HOW TO GO TO THE PARK. 

The public conveyances that lead to the immediate vicinity 
of t he Park, are the street cars, as follows : — 

Second Avenue Uailroad, from Peck Slip, 

Third Avenue Railroad, from the lower end of the Park 
opposite the Astor House. 

Eighth Avenue Railroad, from both Vesey and Canal 
Streets, and Broadway. 

The cars of the above roads all run beyond the upper end 
of the Park, thus affording an opportunity to enter by the 
gates on 59tli street, or at either of the upper or side en- 
trances. 

Sixth Avenue Railroad, from both Vesey and Canal 
streets, and Broadway. 

Seventh Avenue Railroad, from both Barclay and Broome 
streets, and Broadway. 

Central Park, North and East River Railroad (Belt). 

Western Division, from South Ferry via river front and 
Tenth Avenue to the Park. 

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BATTERY. 

Situated at the southernmost terminus of the metropolis- 
Connected with the Batterv is Castle Garden. Orimnallv a 
fortification, it was subsequently let on lease as a place of 
public amusement. It was probably the largest audience- 
room in the world. It was the scene of Jennv Lind's 
first appearance in America. This building has now little- 
architectural beauty to boast ; having been for some time used 
as a depot for emigrants. 

BOWLING GREEN. 

Close to the Battery, at the entrance to Broadway is the 
small inclosure so called from having been used as such 
prior to the Revolution. 

CTTY HALL PARK 

Is a triannrular inclosure of about 11 acres, containino; the 
City Hall and other public buildings, and the new Post Office, 

WASHINGTON 3QL\UIE 

Was formed by laying out the ground formerly occupied as a 
Potter's Field. The Square is surrounded with splendid 
private houses and on one side is the University Building 
and a splendid church. 

unt:on fark 

Is in Union Square at the upper or northern end of Broadway, 
extending from 14th to ITth streets. At the south side is 
the bronze equestrian statue of Washington, and opposite on 
the Broadway side stands the new statue of Abraham Lincoln. 

GRAMERCY P.\RK 

Situated a little to the northeast of the above, is a select and 
beautiful inclosure on a smaller scale. This park is private 
propertja^ having been ceded to the owners of the surrounding 
lots by S. B. Buggies, Esq. It forms the area between 20th 
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PARKS AND PUBLIC SQUARES. 91 

STUYVESANT PARK, 

Extends from 15th to 17th streets, and is divided by the in- 
tersecting passage of the Second Avenue. The Rev. Dr. 
Tyng's Church is upon the west side of this park. The 
ground was presented by the late P. G, Stuyvesant Esq., to 
the corporation of the churcK. 

TOMPKINS SQUARE. 

Is one of the largest parks of the city. It occupies the area 
formed bv Avenues A and B, and 7th and 10th streets. 

MADISON SQUARE, 

Comprising 10 acres, is at the junction of Broadway and Fifth 
Avenue. On the west side stands the monument of General 
Worth. The houses surrounding this part include some of 
the most elegant of the citv. 

RESERVOIR PARK. 

Reservoir Square is located between the Fifth and Sixth 
avenues, and 40th and 42d streets, and has an extent of be- 
tween nine and ten acres, upon one-half of which is the 
" Distributing Reservoir." The other, or western half, once 
had upon it tlie " New York Crystal Palace," but since the 
destruction of that building by the tire of 1858, the groundvs 
have been kept open as a park. 

MT. MORRIS SQUARE. 

Mt. Morris Square presents the anomalous appearance of 
an abrupt hill, with thickly wooded sides, rising from the 
midst of a plain that has no other hills upon it. It " heads 
off' the Fifth avenue at 120th street, and extends as far north 
as 124th street, and its area is nearly twenty acres. It is 
the breathing spot of the pretty village of Harlem, and the 
favorite resorts of the citizens. 

OTHER SQUARES. 

The other squares, such as Hamilton, Manhattan, Bloom- 
ingdale, etc., contain from fifteen to twenty-two acres each. 

Under the able control of the Commissioners of Public 
Parks all of the above-named Parks have lately undergone a 
marked improvement. Many of them, more especiallj' the 
Battery Grounds, were a disgrace to the city, but they are 
now be ins: fast transformed into miniature Paradises. The 
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This justly entitled Home of Corned}- was first opened at 
the theatre corner of Broadway and Broome Street, where, 
for a decade, it kept the highest rank as a theatre for the 
representation of the best school of dramas and comedies. 
The next movement of the late veteran manager, Mr. James 
W. Wallack, was to build the present theatre, corner of 13th 
Street and Broadway. This place of amusement was opened 
in 1861, and was, until the death of the elder Wallack, under 
his immediate management. At his decease the proper t^- 
became his son's, the present proprietor and manager, }.ir. 
Lester Wallack. The building is not very pretentious, but is 
comfortable, and large enough for the purposes intended. 
The seating capacity comprises 408 orchestra chairs, 407 
dress circle secured seats, about 400 parquette seats, and a 
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' The names of artists who have appeared under the 
Wallack management are the brightest in the list of the 
ornaments of the stage. Messrs. Walcot, Blake, Lysander, 
Thompson, Jordan, Brougham, Gilbert, Williamson. Hale. 
Vincent, Reynolds, Sothern, Peters ; Mesdames Hoey, Gan- 
non, Yernon, Stephens, Laura Keene, Hodgson, Henriques. 
Jennings, and others. Some are dead, but many live, and 
act and delight the public at the present day. As a school 
of acting, Wallack's Theatre is perhaps the best in anv 
countrj- where the English language is spoken. 

booth's theatre 

This magnificent structure, on the corner of 6th Avenue 
and 23d Street, covering an area of 200 feet in depth and To 
feet in width, was erected at a cost of 8800,000. Constructed 
of granite, it consists of four stories, with a double French 
roof. The simplicity of the edifice is remarkable, while, at 
the same time, it is one of the grandest buildings in the city 
and perhaps in the country. The onh' ornamentation visible 
— the entire building being mostly composed of solid blocks 
of granite — is a medallion bust of Shakespeare, in has relief 



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over the main entrance. There is one grand entrance on 
Sixth Avenue, and one on Twenty-third Street, and at the 
close of the performance five other means of egress are 
thrown open to the audience. Great size has not been sought 
in the erection of this temple to the histrionic art, but every 
advantage to be gained in the production of Shakespeare's 
grandest creations has been acquired, and they can be here 
produced with generalities of detail without a parallel. 

The seating capacity of the Theatre, including the private 
boxes, will accommodate 1,800 persons with ease. The 
auditorium is lighted by electricity. An efficient fire brigade 
composed of the different employes of the Theatre, lends ad- 
ditional security in case of fire to the easy and rapid means 
of egress afforded the audience. 

The following named Stars will appear at this Theatre 
durinff the season of '71 '72 in the order named — 

Miss Charlotte Cushman. 
Mr. John E. Owens. 
Mr. Edwin Booth. 
Miss Maggie Mitchell. 
Miss Lotta. 

The Theatre is under the able management of its proprie- 
tor, the celebrated actor, Mr. Edwin Booth, who is ably as- 
sisted by Mr. J. Henry Magonigle. The treasurer is Mr. J. 
A. Booth. Stage manager, D. W. Waller ; and musical 
director, E. Mollenhauer. 

'5th avenue theatre. 

This elegant little Theatre is situated on Twenty-fourth 
street, adjoining the Fifth Avenue hotel. The building, which 
is constructed of white marble, has a frontage of fifty feet and 
depth of one hundred and ten. Originally built for an up 
town Gold Room, it finally passed into the hands of Mr. 
James Fisk, jr., who, at a cost of one hundred and thirty 
thousand dollars, completely remodelled it into the present 
Theatre. The interior is remarkable for its elegance of de- 
sign and beauty of finish, and combines all that can be 
desired for comfort and security. 

Under the able management of Mr. Augustin Daly, this 
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AMUSEMENTS. 97 

entitles it to that enviable position. It has not inaptly been 
termed the " Parlor Home of American Comedy." 

To the stranger visiting New York, no more pleasant 
evenings amusement can be afforded than by the delightful 
performances of this Temple to the Histrionic Art. 

ACADEMY OF MUSIC. 

This Temple to the lyric muse is situated on the corner 
of 14th Street and Irving Place ; has a frontage of 204 feet 
on 14th Street and 122 feet on Irving Place. Was incorpor- 
ated in 18G2, and inaugurated by Mario and Grisi mider the 
management of James Hackett, in October, 1864. It was 
burned by some undiscovered accident in May, 1866, and 
immediately rebuilt with improvements, and inaugurated by 
Fire Department Ball, 28th February. It has no gallery, 
has 100 private boxes, spacious lobbies, passages and stair- 
cases ; seats 2,200 with large commodious seats, and on 
crowded occasions hold 3,500 persons ; standing and pro- 
menade room. 

Mr. H. G. Stebbins is the president, and Mr. D. Kingsland 
is the secretary. 

Opera has precedence here; and if no opera, then let for 
concerts, balls, &c., of first class. 

OLYMPIC THEATRE. 

This Theatre was originally entitled '' Laura Keene's 
Theatre. Built by John Trimble, and opened under the 
management of Miss Laura Keene, October, 1856. During 
the period of that lady's management many of the present 
theatrical Stars were in the list of the regular company. 
Among the notable productions of Miss Keene's managerial 
career were " Our American Cousin," "■ The Seven Sisters," 
*' The Seven Sons" and " Midsummer Night's Dream." On 
the termination of Miss Keene's management the theatre was 
entirely altered, great improvements made, and opened Oct. 
8, 1863, under the management of Mr. John Wood, at which 
time the Theatre was re-christened " The Olympic." This 
lady retired in 1866, and was succeeded by Mr. Lemuel Grover, 
and afterwards by Messrs. James E. Hayes and the " Inimit- 
able Fox," under whose able management this Theatre still 
continues. Its record is certainly a most brilliant one. 
" Midsummer Night's Dream," produced on a scale of magni- 

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ficeiice almost unparalleled in the annals of the stage, had a 
run of 100 nights. The great triumph was the production 
of G'. L. Fox's pantomime, " Humpty Dumpty," which con- 
tinued until May 15th, 18G9, having been played 483 times. 

No stranger should leave New York without first seeing 
one of Fox's pantomimes, and enjoying a hearty laugh over the 
" Clown's discomfitures." 

The auditorium is commodious, with easy egress for the 
largest audiences, and the stage arrangements are among the 
best in the world, enabling the management to produce the 
most gorgeous spectacles. Ballets, Pantomimes, &c. 

The seating capacity of the house, which is very taste- 
fully decorated, is about 2,400. 

Lessee and manager, James E. Hayes ; fctage manager, 
John H. Selwyn ; treasurer, M. L. Sutton. 

NIBLO'S GARDEN 

Stands on Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets, 
in the same building with the Metropolitan Hotel. The pre- 
sent edifice was built in 1850 by Messrs. Wm. Niblo and Van* 
Ranseller ; architects, Messrs. Hitchings and Beers. Its 
seating capacity is 2,700 ; but with the capacious lobbies at 
back and sides, it will accommodate 4,000 persons. The 
entire depth of the Theatre is 151 feet ; width, 72 feet ; 
height from Parquette to Dome, 68 feet ; stage, from footlights 
to back wall, 66 feet ; width, 77 feet from wall to wall 
proscenium opening, 43 feet; opening of stage proper, 37 feet 
height of stage to fly loft, 24 feet ; to rigging loft, 44 feet 
depth of stage to magazine floor, 8 feet ; to sub cellar, 20 feet 

The Theatre was first opened under the management of 
Wni. Niblo. Jas. Nixon was the lessee for one year, in 1860 ; 
under the control of Palmer and Ulman, 1861 ; opened under 
the management of Messrs. Wheatley, Davenport and Jarrett, 
January 18th, 1862. June 1st, 1862, passed under the sole 
management of Wm. Wheatley, from him the present lease 
passed to Messrs. Jarrett and Palmer, the present managers, 
on Sept. 1st, 1869. 

Niblo's Garden is devoted to the higher order of spectacu- 
lar dramas. The fiimous " Black Crook" was originally pro- 
duced here on September 12th, 1865, and was performed 474 
consecutive times — the longest run ever known in America. 
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AMUSEMENTS. 101 

$3,700. The " Black Crook" was successfully revived for 
five months last winter, and will be reproduced with more 
than the original splendor during the coming winter season. 

GRAND OPERA HOUSE. 

This magnificent Theatre, probably the finest on this 
continent, is situated on the corner of Eighth avenue and 
Twenty-third street. It was erected during the years 1867 
and 1868, and was originally nitenaed. to be strictlv devoted 
to operatic performances solelj'. 

Purchased in November, 1868, by James Fisk, jr., the 
halls were altered into spacious offices for the use of the Erie 
Railway Company. 

The embellishments of this house are superb, and have 
been distributed with a lavish hand. The performances at 
this house are mostly of a dramatic character, though brief 
opera seasons alternate with the usual Star perfomances. 
Seating capacity, 2,500. 

UNION SQUARE THEATRE, 

Corner of Broadway and 14tli Street. H. W. Butler, manager. 
This elegant Theatre, situated in one of the most central 
locations in the city, was projected and built under the direc- 
tion of Mr. Sheridan Shook, and opened to the public on 
September llth, 1871, under the management of Mr. R. W. 
Butler. The seating capacity of the auditorium is about 
fourteen hundred, divided in orchestra, chairs, parquette, 
dress circle and family circle. The appointments and de- 
coration are rich and chaste, and the seats so arranged that 
a perfect view of the stage is obtained from every one. The 
Theatre is dedicated to select, entertainments of light Vau- 
deville, Burlesque and Pantomime, presenting to its patrons 
a change of programme nightly. Performances every evening, 
commencing at 8 o'clock. Grand Matinee every Wednesday 
and Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock. 

N.B. — This Theatre, Irom its central location, is easily ac- 
cessible by almost every line of cars or omnibuses running in 
the city. 

NEW YORK CIRCUS. 

Tiiis building is of corrugated iron in a circular form, and 
occupies a lot on Fourteenth street, between Third and Fourth 
Avenues, opposite Irving Place, one hundred and twenty-five 



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the manufacturo, to order, of Ladies' Linen Collars, Sleeves and Oiiimesetts. Initials and 
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AMUSEMENTS. 103 

feet front, and one hundred and six feet deep. Ithas a seat- 
ing capacity of 3,450. The entertainments consist of first 
•class equestrian, gymnastic and acrobatic performances, also 
pantomime and ballet. The stud of horses and ponies is said 
to be the finest in the world. 

This house is closed during the summer season, the com- 
pany being then engaged in traveling throughout the rural 
districts ; but early in October the Winter season is inauo-u- 
rated. This establishment is under the able management of 
Mr. H. B. Lent, who has long been identified with this class 
of performances. 

STEINWAY MUSIC HALL. 

This Music Hall, erected by Messrs. Steinway & Sons at 
Nos. 71 and 73 East Fourteenth Street, between Union 
Square and Irving Place, has a frontage on Fourteenth Street 
of 50 feet, extending clear through the block to Fifteenth 
Street, where the building has a frontage of 100 feet. 

The dimensions of Steinway Hall are : Length, 123 
feet ; width, 86 feet ; height from floor to ceiling, 42 feet. 
Connecting with the main Hall, on the same level of the 
floor, directly opposite the stage, is a large room, 25 feet 
wide and 84 feet long, running to the front wall on Four- 
teenth Street, which can be opened into or shut off* from the 
main Hall, at pleasure, through the medium of sliding parti- 
tion-doors, affording room for 400 persons. 

The seating capacity of the Hall is as follows : 1,300 
seats on the main floor, 800 seats on the two balconies, and 
400 seats in the extension room— in all 2,500 seats ; all being 
permanently-fixed iron-framed arm chairs, cushioned with 
ruby leather — the seats being more roomy and more com- 
fortable than in any other public building in the country. 
There is ample standing room for five hundred additional 
persons, if needed. The aisles are unusually wide, as are 
also the space, between the row of seats. The means of in- 
gress and egress are of the most capacious character, there 
being two additional exit doors, each seven feet wide, on 
either side of the stage, leading directly into Fifteenth Street. 
The doors on both Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets all open 
outwards, allowing the Hall to be cleared by its numerous 
stairways in three minutes, if necessary. 




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The New Stemway Hall will be reserved exclusively for 
first class Concerts and Lectures, and by its perfect arrange- 
ments, alike for seeing and hearing, as well as the general 
comfort of the vast auditorium, is unequalled by any other 
hall in the country, and in every respect worthy of the Me- 
tropolis of America. 



OTHER PLACES OF AMUSEMENT; 

THE BOWERY THEATRE, 

Situated in the Bowery, near Canal Street, occupies the site 
upon which three theatres have been successively burnt and 
rebuilt. The present edifice is of the Doric order of archi- 
tecture. This place of entertainment is usually celebrated 
for spectacle and the broader kind of humor, 

THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM 

Is located in the New York Historical Society Building. It 
contains several hundred relics, collected with great care and 
industry by the learned Dr. Abbott, during a residence of 
twenty years on the banks of the Nile. Here are to be seen 
mummied men and quadrupeds, the slates of the school-boys 
in Pharaoh's time, and the remains of the lamps that were 
used to lighten the darkness of Egypt. Many of the objects 
here are three thousand j^ears old. 

THE NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 

In the Bowery, nearly opposite the Bowery Theatre, is a Ger- 
man Opera House, and has a well-selected company. 

NEW FRENCH THEATRE, 

Fourteenth Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. 

BRYANTS NEW OPERA HOUSE, 

Twenty-third Street, near Sixth Avenue. 

SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS 

585 Broadway. 



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WOODS MUSEUM, 

Corner of 30th Street and Broadway. 



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745 Broadway. 

CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 

Seventh Avenue, corner West Fifty-Nmth Street. 



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TERRACE GARDEN, 

Fifty-ninth Street, near Third Avenue. 



CEMETERIES. 

Green-wood Cemetery became a Chartered Institution in 
1838. Its location was the result of a careful and extensive 
survey of the Entire vicinity of New York. The enterprise, 
after four years of hard struggle, was at length placed upon 
a firm foundation, and the Cemetery was thrown open for 
interments in 1842. From that time its history has been 
one of uninterrupted progress. The original enclosure of one 
hundred and seventy-five acres has swelled, by successive 
additions on the west and south, to its present dimensions of 
413 acres. Broad, substantial roads, underlaid with 
stones, and bordered on the declivities with paved gutters, 
furnish, at all seasons, a hard and pleasant carriage path of 
many miles, and conduct the visitor to every part of the 
Cemetery. Commodious and inviting foot-paths, wind round 



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«very hill, and explore each dell and shady nook. The work 
of grading the entire grounds, involving an immense amount 
of labor, is now all but completed, and has been prosecuted 
with a constant regard both to beauty and utility. The " 
water of Sylvan Lake is forced by steam power into an elev- 
ated reservoir, whence it is conveyed by pipes to different 
parts of the ground, to be used in irrigation and for the supply 
of fountains. 

The Cemetery is entered at its northwestern angle from 
the Fifth Avenue, and at its southwestern angle from the 
Fourth Avenue, and also on the southern side from the old 
road known as Martense's Lane. The original entrance, and 
for many years the sole entrance, was a little south of what 
is now the northwestern corner of the grounds. This narrow 
passage-way, with its simple, rustic, yet picturesque lodge 
and bell-tower, was strictly in consonance with the limited 
means of the Institution, and, for a while, answered every 
purpose. The increasing number of visitors and of funerals, 
together with various annoyances which gathered, at length, 
around this only approach, led to the opening in 1850, of 
what is now called the Western Entrance. During the 
twelve following years, visitors found admission to Green- 
Wood almost wholly through this fine approach — the north- 
ern gate being appropriated to funerals. 

The extension of the Fifth Avenue in 1869, upon a cause- 
way of high grade, running directly by and across the West- 
ern Entrance, involved the necessity of a viaduct at that 
point. The stone archway built by the Trustees, over which 
the public travel passes, and through, which visitors enter or 
leave the Cemeter}^, is a work that will compare, in solidity 
and beauty, with any similar structure in the country. This 
intrusion of the Avenue made a change of position necessary 
in regard to some of the buildings connected with this en- 
trance, and they were accordingly removed to the western 
side of the viaduct. The gate-house here is a handsome 
wooden structure, with bell-tower and clock, rooms for the 
gate-keeper and family, and a room for visitors. Near by is 
a Gardener's Lodge, and not far off, close to the Fourth 
Avenue, the house occupied by the Superintendent of the 
workmen. A cottage occupied by the Engineer of the Water 
Works, a commodious and neat carpenter and blacksmith 
shop, large barn and stables, storehouse and sheds, comprise 




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the other buildings at this entrance. Some of these erections 
are consequent upon the purchase of land in 1867, by which 
direct access to this entrance was effected. The widening of 
the Fourth Avenne to 120 feet, both sides being lined with 
trees the entire length of the Avenue, nearly four miles, and 
the road-bed being macadamized, will render this approach 
very attractive and desirable for vehicles of all kinds. 

At the Southern Entrance, on Martense's Lane, a neat 
Lodge flanks the gate, and is occupied by the Assistant 
Superintendent of the workmen. On Battle Hill is a small 
cottage, occupied by an assistant of the Superintendent of 
Interments, and in the north-easterly boundary of the 
Cemetery, near Ocean Hill, stands a cottage tenanted by one 
of the workmen. Nine dwellings in all, occupied by as many 
families, are within the enclosure of the Cemetery. 

In 1860, it was resolved to open a spacious and command- 
ing entrance at the northwestern corner of the Cemetery. 
Such an entrance, indeed, had been contemplated for many 
years, and would have been much earlier made, but for a 
series of difliculties which prevented the Trustees from ac- 
quiring full possession of the ground required. 

This Northern Entrance, commenced in 1861, was com- 
pleted in 1863, and constitutes, henceforth, the principal 
mode of access to the Cemetery. It is situated at that point 
of the ground which lies nearest to the vast population of 
New York and Brooklyn, and may be reached, at any hour 
of the day, by means of the horse-cars, which start in con- 
stant and frequent succession, from four ferries. Its outer 
gate, closed only at night, opens upon the Fifth Avenue, 
directly opposite to the termination of Twenty-fifth street. 
An approach, graded with immense labor, and which, in a few 
years, will be beautifully shaded, leads, by a broad and gra- 
dually widening area, to the grand entrance. The great 
gate-way, which faces the north, is an imposing and elaborate 
gothic edifice, solidly constructed of the best New Jersey 
sandstone. Two passage-ways through the massive structure 
are appropriated — one to funerals, the other to visitors. A 
room for the latter to rest in, and fire-poof offices for the 
Cemetery business, occupy the lower part of the building. 
Upwards it terminates in three lofty pinnacles. The entire 
structure, built after designs by R. Upjohn & Son, is 132 feet 
6 inches long, and 40 feet deep. The central pinnacle is 106 



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CEMErERIES. 113 

feet high. There is a bell for the passing procession, and a 
clock to strike the hours. The deep, triangular recesses of 
the pediments above the two gate-ways are filled in, on both 
sides, with groups of sculpture formed of Nova Scotia sand- 
stone. These four groups represent, in durable material and 
strong relief, viz. : The Saviour's Entombment ; His Resur- 
rection ; the Resurrection of the Widow's Son, and Raising of 
Lazarus. Still higher up, on the four shields which surmount 
the quatre-foils, are figures in relief of Faith, of Hope, of 
Memory, and of Love. The conception and execution of all 
this expressive and appropriate sculj)ture are due to Mr. John 
Moffit, an ingenious young artist. Those scenes familiar to 
every reader of the Gospel narrative will, it is hoped, lift the 
thoughts of many afflicted mourners, as they enter and as 
they leave this home of the dead, to Him who ib- the Resur- 
recfion and the Life. 

To this structure — by far the most imposing feature of 
Green- Wood, and its fit vestibule, — we invite your special 
attention. It belongs not to Pagan^ but to Christian, archi- 
tecture. Its breadth, massiveness and height are sufficient 
to invest it with dignity and impressiveness. In its form it 
exhibits that pleasing union of firm solidity and airy grace, 
which marks the best specimens of Gothic art. In its 
sculptured pediments it presents life-like pictures of those 
sacred scenes, which have consoled and cheered the Chris- 
tian mourner for mbre than eighteen hundred years. 

The masonry of these walls is of the most skilful and 
substantial character, while the material is one of the most 
beautiful, and, as we firmly believe, one of the most durable 
of all our buildings of stone. Such is the structure which is 
now committed to the care of the present and of coming 
generations, in full confidence that it will become, as years 
roll on, more and more an object of interest and admiration. 

The original entrance being no longer needed, is closed, 
and its rustic structures have been taken down. A neat 
stone cottage, in harmony with the architecture of the new 
gate, has been erected near it, for the porter's use. Adjoin- 
ing this is a commodious stable for horses employed on the 
ground by the Superintendent of Interments and the Sur- 
veyor ; and, in the rear of the stable, two large buildings for 
the reception of tools, and for storage purposes. A dwelling- 
house, conveniently near the entrance is occupied by the 

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114 CEMETERIES. 

Superintendent of Interments, and one, more recently built, 
for the Assistant Superintendent, is close by. To all these 
buildings gas is supplied, and also water from the Brooklyn 
City mains. Everything connected with these improvements 
has been done in the most substantial and thorough manner, 
with a view, not only to present appearance, but to permanent 
duration and efiect. 

It is an incidental, but by no means unimportant, result 
of these changes, that some of the choicest grounds in the 
whole Cemetery, heretofore inapplicable to burial purposes, 
have now been graded and prepared for sale. 

Large receiving tombs have been constructed on the 
edge of Arbor Water, which have proved ample, thus far, 
for every requirement. 

The entire surface of the Cemetery has been surveyed 
with trigonometrical precision, and has been divided into 
rectangular sections, where practicable, of three hundred 
square feet each. By reference to the field-book, in which 
these are all plotted, and where the occupied lots are duly 
entered, every foot of ground within the enclosure may be 
defined, or identified, with absolute certainty. As another 
result of this survey, a new and larger map has been con- 
structed, and is ready for use. The visitor may now avail 
himself of a plain and perfectly reliable chart, on which he 
will find depicted not only numerous and various inequali- 
ties of these grounds, but all their avenues and paths clearly 
delineated and distinctly named. 

It would be difficult to make anything like an accurate 
estimate of the vast amount which has been expended by 
individual proprietors on the many thousand lots already 
sold. Several hundred tombs have been constructed — and 
their vaults, whether placed in side-hills or sunk in the 
ground, are generally of massive stone-work and durable 
masonry. The side- hill tombs, are in most cases, fronted 
by architectural facades, various in form, and often beauti- 
ful. In addition to a great number of horizontal tablets, 
and small headstones, the Cemetery contains probably more 
than two thousand monuments of marble, of sienite, or of 
sandstone. These, as might be expected, vary greatly in 
magnitude and style, and range from forms quite simple and 
inexpensive, to others of great size and costly decoration. 



CEMETERIES. 115 

The number of interments made in the Cemetery is now 
about one hundred and fifty thousand. 

With the results of the experiment thus far, as exhibited 
in the improvements of the Cemetery, and in its daily 
management, the community for whose benefit it was de- 
signed, seems to be more than satisfied. It may well be 
questioned, whether, anywhere else, or ever before, a place 
of burial has awakened an interest so deep and wide ; — an 
interest, evinced not only by the rapidly increasing demand 
for lots and graves, but by the thronging thousands who 
daily visit the spot. 

Since the time when, amid alternations of hope and dis- 
couragement, the foundations of this institution were laid, a 
great change has taken place in the public sentiment of our 
community. It is not now necessary to urge the manifold 
evils of intramural interment, or to present and portray the 
immense superiority of rural sepulture ; for the former are 
no longer denied or doubted — and the latter has been prac- 
tically demonstrated. The question may be looked upon as 
settled. Cities cease to endure within their limits the offen- 
sive and pestilential danger. The prejudices of early asso- 
ciation, and even the ties of love and kindred, cannot longer 
reconcile the minds of any to the crowded church-yard vault. 

Those very feelings, so natural and so strong, which long 
bound thousands to an objectionable practice, have now set 
in another and better direction. Beneath the verdant and 
flowery sod — beneath green and waving foliage — amid tran- 
quil shades, where Nature weeps in all her dews, and sighs 
in every breeze, and chants a requiem by each warbling bird 
— the dying generations of this great metropolis will hence- 
forth be sepulchred. 

Already, around our Green-Wood, cling the strong af- 
fections of many thousand hearts. Here lie the parent, the 
wife, the husband, the child, the lover, and the friend, once 
dearer to the surviving mourner than all else on earth. 
Hither often those survivors come, to weep and meditate 
unseen. And here, by the mouldering relics of what was 
once so dear, do they hope, at last to lie down themselves. 
Nor are these grounds destitute of that broader interest 
which attaches itself to the names and memories of those 
who have made themselves illustrious by deeds of greatness 
or lives of goodness. Here crumble the frail tenements, in 



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CEMETERIES. 117 

which learning and piety, patriotism and courage, once made 
their glorious home. If the brief experience of the past has 
accomplished so much, what expectations of the future may 
not safely be indulged ? What tender associations, what 
kindling memories, what inspiring thoughts, what Christian 
hopes, will be awakened in the breasts of those who, at some 
coming and not distant day, shall explore this silent city of 
the dead! 

Long may this fair enclosure be preserved, unmarred by 
mistaken taste — undesecrated by rude hands. Let the worn 
and weary citizen still find here a momentary but soothing 
retreat from bustle and toil. Here may Sorrow and pensive 
Meditation ever find a home. And hither let even the idle 
and the thoughtless come, to learn the lesson of their own 
mortality from the eloquent but unobtrusive teachings of the 
tomb. 

HINTS AND RULES FOR VISITORS. 

While we allow that those who ride or drive through 
the principal avenues, may see and may enjoy much, it is 
still true that the pedestrian alone becomes acquainted with 
Green- Wood. He only finds the cross-roads — climbs the 
hills — dives into the dells — and wanders, at will, through 
scores of sequestered and leafy paths. Among the hundred 
and twenty-five thousand graves in this Cemetery, there is 
many a monument, beautiful or queer — many an epitaph, 
appropriate or absurd, touching or laughable — many a 
memorial of true love and grief, as well as of harmless vanity 
and aping fashion — which the great majority of visitors 
never see, and know nothing of We would advise those 
who have the leisure for it, to take one part at a time. Fix 
on a certain portion of the ground for the extent of a single 
ramble, and explore it thoroughly with your guide book and 
Map. A few visits made in this way will accomplish the 
whole, easily, satisfactorily, yes, delightfully. 

Proprietors of Lots are entitled to admittance at all 
times, on showing their tickets, but on Sundays only on foot, 
unless they have special permits from the Ofiice of the 
Cemetery. 

Persons not proprietors will be admitted at all times, 
except on Sundays, by procuring tickets at the Ofiice of the 
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CEMETERIES. 119 

None but Lot-Owners, and their households, will be 
admitted on horseback, and they only by obtaining a special 
ticket of admission at the Office of the Cemetery. 

Fast driving is strictly prohibited. 

Driving on the paths not allowed. 

Smoking not allowed. 

Dogs will not be admitted. 

Persons having baskets, or any like articles, must, during 
their stay in the grounds, leave them in charge of the 
Keepers of the Gates. 

No horse may be left by the driver unfastened. 

All persons are prohibited from picking any flowers, 
either wild or cultivated, or breaking any tree, shrub, or 
plant. 

All persons are prohibited from writing upon, defacing, 
or injuring any monument, fence, or other structure in or 
belonging to the Cemetery. 

Any person disturbing the quiet and good order of the 
place by noise, or other improper conduct, or who shall 
violate any of the foregoing rules, will be compelled instantly 
to leave the grounds. 

The Keepers of the Gates are charged to prohibit the en- 
trance of all improper persons, though presenting tickets, 
and all those who may be known to have, at any time, wil- 
fully transgressed the regulations of the Cemetery. 

The gates are opened, for entrance, at sunrise, and closed 
(except for egress) at sunset. 

Persons going to Green- Wood can take Hamilton or Ful- 
ton Ferry Boats to Brooklyn, thence by street cars, which 
run every few minutes direct to Green- Wood. 

PRICE OF LOTS, &C. 

The price of lots range, generally, from $300 to $600 
each, according to their location. Smaller plots, but not 
less than one-fourth of a lot, will be sold at a small advance 
above the proportionate rates. These prices include all 
charges for grading and for mowing the grass as often as 
may be needed. 

The size of each lot is 14 by 27 feet. 

The Surveyor or Superintendent of Interments will al- 
ways be on the grounds to aid those wishing to purchase. 



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CEMETERIES. 121 

The form of the lois varies sometimes according to. cir- 
cumstances, depending upon the peculiar surface of the 
ground, and the character of the improvements contemplated. 
Thus, lots are given in circular, square, oblong, octagonal 
or oval form, as the circumstances of each case render de- 
sirable. 

Proprietors may dispose of their lots, and have the trans- 
fer recorded on the books of the company by the payment 
■of two dollars for each transfer. 

The proprietor of each lot shall have the right to erect 
any proper stones, monuments, or sepulchtural structures 
thereon, except that no slab shall be set in any other than a 
horrizontal position ; that no vault shall be built entirely or 
partially above ground, without permission of the Company, 
and that all monuments, and all parts of vaults above ground, 
shall be of cut stone, granite or marble. The proprietor of 
each lot shall also have the right to cultivate trees, shrusb, 
and plants in the same ; but no tree, growing within the lot 
or border, shall be cut down or destroyed, without the con- 
sent of the Company. 

No wall exceeding eighteen inches in height above the 
surface, nor iron railing exceeding three feet in height, may 
be erected without special permission being obtained. 

No person allowed to be interred in the Cemetery who 
shall have died in any prison, or shall have been executed 
for any crime. 

The Charter authorizes the Corporation to receive upon 
trust any donation or bequest for the purpose of improving 
or embellishing the Cemetery generally, or any cemetery 
lot, and for the erection, preservation, and renewal of any 
monumental structure and enclosure. 

All moneys received have been thus applied, either in 
immediate expenditure, or in the formation of a Permanent 
Improvement Fund, which, when augmented by future sales, 
will afford an adequate income, before the lots are all sold, 
to keep the grounds and improvements perpetually in per- 
fect order. This Fund amounted, on the 1st January, 1870, 
to $562,353.92. 



122 

THE WOOD-LAWN CEMETERY. 

For the City of New York and vicinity, on the line of the 
Harlem Railroad, six miles above HtM-lem Bridge, is situated 
on the summit and eastern slope of the high dividing ridge 
overlooking the Hudson and the Sound. 

It is four miles from Yonkers, a mile and a-half from Mt. 
Vernon, three miles from Riverdale, two miles from Kings 
Bridge, four miles from Macomb's Dam, or Central Bridge ; 
and is easily accessible by carriages, and by rail-cars. It is 
bounded on the east by the Harlem Railroad, and on the west 
by the new Central Park Avenue extending from Macomb's 
Dam, or Central Bridge, to White Plains. 

This Cemetery contains over 300 acres. It was organized 
under the State law in December, 1863 ; ground was first 
broken in April, 1864, and the first interment was made in 
Januar}^, 18i)5. Since that date 1631 lots have been sold, 
and the interments now number 10,112. 

ADVANTAGES CLAIMED. 

1. In point of distance, this Cemetery is so far removed 
from the City of New York, as to render it free from all the 
dangers of encroachment arising from the expansion of the 
City, to which all cemeteries lying in the immediate suburbs 
of large cities are liable. 

2. In point of time, it is nearer to the city than any other 
cemetery, not within its limits. 

3. In an economical point of view, it offers great advanta- 
ges, as a reference to the list of charges and prices of lots 
wdll show. 

4. The grounds are elevated, dry, and undulating, and as 
regards their adaptability for the purpose to which they are 
devoted, are considered to be unsurpassed. 

5. Nature has been unusually lavish in the bestowal of 
ever-running streams of pure water, and a profusion of densely- 
massed forest trees in great variety, the two most important 
requisites for the formation of a beautiful rural Cemetery. 

RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY VISITORS. 

No rapid riding will be allowed and no driving on the 
grass. 

No smoking will be allowed nor persons with fire arms or 
fishing tackle admitted. 



CEMETERIES. 12S' 

Persons with dogs, running at large, will not be permitted 
to enter the grounds. 

All persons are prohibited from touching any object not 
their o^vn. 

Schools and large assemblages of persons will not be ad- 
mitted. 

No horse may be left by the driver in the grounds un- 
fastened. 

Persons with refreshments will not be permitted to enter, 
and those having baskets and like articles must leave them 
in charge of the gate-keeper. 

Any person disturbing tho quiet and good order of the 
place by noise or other impro^Der conduct, or who shall violate 
any of the foregoing rules, will be compelled instantly to 
leave the grounds. 

The' gate-keeper is charged to prohibit the entrance of all 
improper persons, as well as those who, though presenting 
tickets, may be known at any time to have wilfully trans- 
gressed any regulations of the Cemetery. 

No money may be paid to any person in the employ of 
the institution, in reward for any personal attentions. ' 

The gates will be opened at sunrise and closed at sunset, 
when all persons must leave the grounds. 

NAMES OF PLOTS IN THE WOOD-LAWN CEMETERY, AND OF THE 
AVENUES BY WHICH THEY ARE BOUNDED. 

Chapel Hill Plot, is bounded by Central, Magnolia, and 
North Border Avenues. 

Spring Lake Plot, by Central, Forest, White Oak, and 
Magnolia Avenues. 

Sylvan Dell Plot, by Sylvan Dell Brook and Northern 
Boundary of Cemetery. 

Rutgers Avenue Plot, by Rutgers, Cedar, and White Oak 
Avenues. 

Cedar Avenue Plot, by Cedar, Rutgers, and North Border 
Avenues. 

Sunny Side Plot, by Central and Aurora Avenues^ and 
Eastern Boundary of Cemetery. 

Aurora Hill Plot, by Aurora, East Border, and Central 
Avenues. 

Crown Grove Plot, by Ravine, East Border, Central^ 
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CEMETERIES. 125 

Catalpa Avenue Plot, by Central and Catalpa Avenues. 

Oak Avenue Plot, by Oak, Poplar, and Central Avenues. 

Spruce Avenue Plot, by Spruce, Poplar, Oak, Central, 
and Forest Avenues. 

Observatory Hill Plot, by Observatory and Central 
Avenues. 

Prospect Hill Plot, by Prospect, Ravine, Junction, Ob- 
servatory, and Lawn Avenues. 

Cherry Avenue Plot, by South Border, Cherry, and Cen- 
tral Avenues. 

Willow Lake Plot, by Central and Cherry Avenues, and 
South and West Boundaries of the Cemetery. 

White Oak Avenue Plot, by White Oak, North Border, 
and Forest Avenues. 

Forest Avenue Plot, by Forest, Spruce, and Cedar Avenues. 

Laurel Plot, by Central, Poplar, and Catalpa Avenues. 

William A. Booth, President ; Henry J. Diering, Superin- 
tendent ; Russell Hotchkiss, Assistant Treasurer. Office, 
938 Broadway. 



OTHER CEMETERIES. 

Calvary. — The grounds are in Newton, L. I. about 2 
miles from East 10th Street. 

City. — On Harts Island. 

Cypress Hills. — The grounds are on the Myrtle Ave. 
and Jamaica Plank Road, 5 miles from Williamsburgh ferries. 

Lutheran. — Jamaica, L. I. 

New York Bay. — New Jersey. 

Trinity Church. — 153d St. and 10th Ave. 

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CHURCHES. 127 

It is estimated that there are about 300 churches in New 
York ; many of them being of great elegance. We annex 
brief notices of the more prominent and noteworthy. 

TRINITY CHURCH. 

Fronting Wall Street, with its portals invitingly open 
every day in the year, stands Trinity Church, a beautiful 
temple of worship, in strange contiguity with the busy marts 
where " merchants most do congregate." It is the third 
edifice of the kind erected upon the spot, the first having 
been destroyed in the great fire of 1776. This fine gothic 
structure was completed in 1846, having been seven years in 
building, under the careful superintendence of Mr. Upjohn 
the architect. The church is 192 feet in length, 80 in breadth, 
and 60 in height. The interior will richl}^ repay examina- 
tion. Among many relics there carefully preserved is an 
elaborate chancel service of silver, presented to the corpora- 
tion by Queen Anne. 

The steeple towers up 284 feet in height ; the walls of the 
church are nearly 50 feet high, and the whole edifice, both 
as to its exterior and interior, is regarded by most persons 
as the most elegant and cathedral-like of the churches of the 
city. Do not forget to ascend the steeple to get a panoramic 
view of the city. 

The grave-yard of Old Trinity occupies nearly an entire 
block. Within it are the venerated tombs of Alexander 
Hamilton, the statesman and friend of Washington ; the 
heroic commander Lawrence, and many other illustrious 
public men. 

Adjoining Trinity buildings, and a few feet from Broad- 
way, stands the monumental tribute of the Corporation of 
Trinity Church to the honored " Sugar House Martyrs." Of 
finely cut and ornamented brown stone, it presents a grace- 
ful appearance, while it attracts the especial interest of every 
American patriot from the fact, that the ground immediately 
under and around it, is rich with the ashes of our Revolution- 
ary fathers. 

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(Episcopal), situated on Twenty-fifth street, near Broadway, 
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CHURCHES. 129 

spacioLiy and elegant edifice, erected by the Trinity Church 
Corporation, and cost $260,000. The length of the building 
is ISO feet; width, 54 feet. The inside, walls are of Caen 
stone ; the windows are of richly stained glass, and the ceiling 
painted blue, with gilt ornaments. The floors are tiled ; and 
the seats are movable benches, as in the cathedrals of the 
Continent. 

ST. Paul's chapel, 

The third Episcopal church established in the city, was 
erected in 1 766. It stands between Fulton and Vesey streets, 
opposite the N. Y. Herald. The length of the edifice is 151 
and the width 73 feet. The steeple is 203 feet high. 

On the front, in a niche of red sandstone, in the centre of 
a large pediment supported by four Ionic columns, is a white 
marble statue of St. Paul, leaning on a sword. Also in the 
front part of the niche there is inserted a slab of white 
marble, bearing an inscription to the memory of General 
Montgomery, who fell at Quebec during the Revolution, and 
whose remains were removed to New York by order of the 
State in 1818. At the lower side of the church facing Broad- 
way, is an obelisk of white marble, erected in honor of 
Thomas Addis Emmet, the Irish patriot and barrister, who 
died here in 1827. The inscriptions are in Latin, Irish, and 
English. 

ST. John's chapel 

(Episcopal). This is one of the associate churches of the 
Trinity Corporation. It is located opposite the Hudson River 
R. R. Freight Depot. It is not modern in style, but yet a 
very noble looking edifice. It is built of sandstone, and is 
very spacious, measuring 132 feet by 80. It has a deep 
portico in front, formed by a pediment and four massive 
columns. 

In all the ancient churches of New York city, the plan 
of a collegiate charge was the rule. The ancient Episcopal 
church of the city was established on this basis. Trinity 
church was considered the parish church, and had a collegiate 
charge ; St. George's, St. John's, and St. Paul's were called 
" Chapels." St. George's is now a distinct charge, but the 
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CHURCHES. 131 



ST. mark's church 



(Episcopal), situate in Stuyvesant street, to the east of the 
Bowery, was built in its present form in 1826. 

The steeple is lofty, but somewhat venerable in appear- 
ance, which is indeed the character of the entire structure. 
The church is venerable also on account of its historic asso- 
ciations ; it stands on what was the estate of Petrus Stuy- 
vesant, the last of the Dutch governors, and his remains rest 
in a vault under the church, over which, on the east side, is 
a tablet indicating the fact. Here also repose the mortal re- 
mains of the English governor, Col. Sioughter, and those of 
the American governor, Tompkins. The Rev. Dr. Vinton is 
the present minister. 



ST. George's church 



(Episcopal). This spacious and elegant structure, the most 
capacious ecclesiastical edifice in the city, is situated in East 
Sixteenth street, opposite Stuyvesant Square. It was erected 
in 1849, and for architectural beauty is entitled to the first 
rank among the religious edifices of New York. Its imposing 
exterior, and vast interior, unsupported by any visible 
columns, either to roof or gallery, impart to it a fine effect. 
Its architecture is of the Byzantine order ; its length 170 feet 
by 94 in width. Its entire cost ^250,000. The adjoining 
rectory cost $20,000, and the chapel $10,000. The ground 
upon which the church stands was given by the late Peter 
G. Stuyvesant. The Rev. Dr. Tyngis Rector. The interior 
of this splendid church was entirely destroyed by fire, sup- 
posed to be the work of an incendiary, during the latter part 
of 1865, entailing a heavy loss on the society, as it was but 
partially insured. The fine towers of red sandstone were, 
however, left intact and uninjured, as were also the massive 
walls of the building. The interior was accordingly rebuilt, 
and the edifice now surpasses, in its internal appointments, 
even its former elegance. 

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GRACE CHURCH 

(Episcopal). This superb edifice, the most ornate of the 
ecclesiastical buildings of New York, is located in Broadway, 
near Tenth street, and commands a fine view of the great 



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CHURCHES. 133 

avenue of the city, nortli and south. The lofty spiral 
and richly decorated steeple is an object of universal admira- 
tion. There is one large and two less sized doors in front. 
Over the main entrance is a circular window of stained glass, 
and two tall, oblong windows in each side of the upper section 
of the tower. Within is a grand array of pillars, carved 
work, and upwards of forty windows of stained glass, each 
giving different hues of vision. There is a little too much of 
theatrical glitter in the interior, to comport with the chasten- 
ed solemnities of religious worship. It was built in 1845. 
Mr. Renwick was the architect. The cost of the building 
was $145,000. The Rev. Dr. Potter is the present rector. 

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 

Corner of Broome and Elizabeth streets, was erected in 1841. 
It measures 99 by 75 feet, and 70 in height, is of the Gothic 
order, built of rough stone, with the lintels, cornices, and 
battlements of brown sandstone. It was constructed during 
the pastorate of the late Dr. Spencer H. Cone. 

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THE BRICK CHURCH 

(Presbyterian), situate on the corner of Thirty -seventh street 
and Fifth Avenue, is a spacious brick edifice, with lofty spire. 
Rev. Dr. Spring is the minister. 

ST. Paul's m. e. church, 

On Fourth Avenue, corner of Twenty-second street, is a new 
magnificent edifice, built of marble, in the Romanesque style. 
Its entire length is 146 feet, by 77, the height of the spire is 
210 feet. The cost of the church, parsonage, &c., is estimated 
at $130,000. 

THE CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, 

(Unitarian), of which the Rev. G. H. Hepworth, is minister, 
is situated on the corner of Thirty-fourth street and Park 
Avenue. 

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

On the junction of Tenth street aud University place, is a 
neat stone edifice, measuring 116 feet by 65, exclusive of a 



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CHURCHES, 135 

lecture-room in the rear, 72 feet by 25. There is a fine Gothic 
window over the principal entrance. The tower is 184 feet 
in height. The cost of this church was $56,000. Rev. Dr. 
Kellogg is the minister. 

THE FOURTH UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. 

This is the- Rev. Dr. Chapin's. Situated on the corner of 
Fifth Avenue and Forty-fifth street. The main building is 
80 feet by 100. Gothic style. It has a frontage, including 
the towers, of 95 feet, and the towers are 185 feet high. The 
height of the main building is 90 feet. The basement for 
Sunday-school, lecture-room, etc., extends over the entire 
church, and is 11 feet in height. The entire cost of the 
church and ground is estimated at $170,000. 

THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, 

Situate on Fourth street and Lafayette Place, was built in 
1839. It measures 110 feet long by 75 wide ; it cost 
$160,000. Its exterior is very good; but its interior is 
characterised by simple elegance. The pulpit is of white 
marble. The Collegiate Dutch Church is one of the oldest 
establishments of the kind in the city. Associated with this 
Church Association are the " North Church," in Fulton 
street ; the new and elegant Church in Fifth Avenue, corner 
of Twenty-ninth street ; the Ninth-street Church ; and that 
we have just described, on Lafayette Place. The venerable 
Dr. De Witt and others are the officiating clergymen. 

THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, 

Situate on the east side of Washington Square, was erected 
in 1840, of rough granite. It is in the Gothic style, with a 
large centre window and two towers. Its interior is very 
finished and effective, especially the ornamental carved work 
of the organ, pulpit, &c. The entire cost of the edifice 
was $125,000. The Rev. Dr. Hutton has long been the 
minister. * 

ST. Patrick's cathedral 

(Roman Catholic), on the corner of Prince and Mott streets, 
was erected in 1815. This building, although not of much 
architectural beauty, is very spacious, it being nearly 160 



136 CHURCH E?. 

feet in length by 80 in width. The rear of the church is 
ornamented with Gothic windows. The interior presents an 
imposing effect, the ceiling being very lofty, from which 
spring^ large pillars, on which are lamps pendant. It will 
accommodate 2,000 persons. 

THE NEW ST. PATRICK'S GATHEDKAL, 

On the Fifth Avenue and 50th street, now in process of 
erection, will, when finished, become the crowning architec- 
tural ornament of the city. 

CHURCH OF ALL SOULS 

(Unitarian), corner of Fourth Avenue aud 20th street, is an 
eccentric and remarkable edifice, being built in the style of 
the Italian churches of the middle ages, of brick and delicate 
cream coloured stone in alternate courses. Adjoining the 
church, on 20th street, is the parsonage. Included in the 
design is to be a spire, or campanile, 300 feet high. The 
Rev. Dr. Bellows is the minister. 

CHURCH OF THE HOLY REDEEMER, 

A new German Catholic Church, on Third street, near 
Avenue A, is a very costly and elegant structure. The spire 
is 2G5 feet high, and the edifice is of the Byzantine order. It 
is a most ornamental church, as to its interior, having richly- 
stained windows, broad aisles, marble columns, lofty roof, 
richly decorated, and a magnificent altar, with confessionals, 
&c. It is estimated at over $100,000. 



FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CUUEGH, 



On the Fifth Avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, 
is a fine stone building, measuring 119 feet by 80, the height 
of the tower being 160 feet. It cost $75,000. 

^HE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 

Corner of Thirty-fourth street and Sixth Avenue, is a new 
and beautiful edifice, very spacious and imposing in its 
aspect. Its style is Gothic, and the interior decorations are 
in excellent keeping. The organ-screen and pulpit present 



• CHURCHES. 137 

exquisite specimens of carved work. The Rev. Dr. Thomp- 
son is the minister. 

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 

On Madison Avenue, facing the Square, is another brown 
stone church, exceedingly neat in style. Rev. Dr. Adams is 
the minister. 

FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 

On the corner of Nineteenth street and Fifth Avenue, erected 
in 1853, is another of the elegant religious edifices which 
adorn the city. Its cost is estimated at nearty $90,000. 
Rev. Dr. Hall is the Minister. 

THE FRENCH CHURCH. 

The congregation of the French Church, styled '' Eglise 
du St. Esprit," has removed from Franklin street, corner of 
Church, to Twenty-second street, between Fifth and Sixth 
A. venues. The new church is Gothic, and very elegant. It 
will seat about 1,000 persons. The rector is the Rev. Dr. 
Verren. 

jews' synagogues. 

There are upwards of a dozen synagogues in this city. 
The most notable are the following : — * 

Shaarai Tephila (Gates of Prayer), No. 112 Wooster 
street, near Prince street, and 

Buai Jeshurun (Sons of Jeshurun), in Greene street, near 
Houston street. 



138 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 



THE NEW CODRT HOUSE. 

This immense building, now in process of construction, is 
situated in the rear of the City Hall, on Chambers street, and 
will be, when completed, one of the most substantial edifices 
in the United States. Its equal is certainly not to be found 
in the city, and the immensity of the structure can only be 
seen and felt by a comparison with buildings of great capacity, 
towering as it does above the five-story buildings in the 
vicinity, completely overlooking the present City Hall, and 
commanding as fine a view of the surroundings of New York 
as can possibly be had. It was commenced in September, 
1861, under the direction and superintendence of Mr. Cum- 
mings H. Tucker, who was appointed by the Board of Super- 
visors for this purpose. The architect is Mr. John Kellum, 
the same who also has charge of A. T. Stewart's immense 
building, corner of Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street, 
and who also built the Stock Exchange, and several other 
large buildings in this city. The entire length of the build- 
ing is 250 feet, and the breadth 150; rectangular in form, and 
three stories in height above ground. The plans and designs 
called for materials (particularly with reference to iron and 
marble) of great magnitude, and the expense attendant upon 
their selection, preparation, and adaptation, together with all 
the embellishments, is necessarily very heavy. The original 
cost was estimated at about $8,000,000, but the increased 
expense of material and labor since that time will bring the 
entire expenses over $13,500,000, when completed, at the 
lowest estimate. The cost of the City Hall, which was nine 
years in building, was about $700,000. The height of the 
new Court House, from the base course top of pediment, i» 
97 feet. The dome will be 128 feet high above the pediment, 
making a total height of the building, from the base course 
to the top of dome, 225 feet. From the side-walk to the 
pediment the building is 82 feet high, and from sidewalk to 
top of the dome 210 feet. 

TJjie new Court House is an entirely fire-proof building — 
the ceilings from base to attic all being formed of brick 
arches. And when we consider that in this will be deposited 
all the records, wills, lease^s, and documents of the offices of 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 139' 

the Register, County Clerk, and Surrogate, the citizens of 
New York, who are all more or less interested in the preser- 
vation of these, will feel a security as to their property and 
interests not hitherto felt. 

It affords accommcdations for County Clerk, • Register, 
Surrogate, Sheriff, and Tax Departments, and Tax Offices — 
departments in which it is of the utmost importance that 
business should be transacted daily -and with dispatch. 

The Court-rooms are large, airy, unobstructed by columns, 
made with reference to the principles of acoustics, and finish- 
ed in an agreeable and pleasing manner, so that they form 
an attractive feature to the spectator, and all to whom may 
be entrusted the administration of justice ; differing in this 
respect from most of the large rooms in the Capitol at Wash- 
ington, the City Hall, and other public buildings, in which, as 
a general thing, the shadows and sombre hues are so strong 
€is to intercept that light and heat so necessary to lend a 
cheerful aspect to any auditory. 

THE CITY HALL. 

This is an imposing edifice, and, for the most part, built 
of marble. It was constructed between the years 1803-10. 
At the celebration of the Atlantic Telegraph, the clock- 
tower and other upper portions of the building were 
destroyed by fire, but have since been rebuilt. 

Previous to the completion of the new cupola, our City 
Fathers contracted with Messrs. Sperry & Co., the cele- 
brated' tower-clock makers of Broadway, to build a clock 
for it, at a cost not exceeding $4,000, that our citizens might 
place the utmost reliance upon, as a timekeeper of unvarying 
correctness. During the month of April the clock was 
completed, and the busy thousands who were daily wont to 
look up to the silent monitor, above which the figure of 
justice was enthroned, hailed its appearance with the utmost 
satisfaction. It is undoubtedly the finest specimen of a 
tower clock on this side of the Atlantic, and as an accurate 
timekeeper, competent judges pronounce it to be unsurpassed 
in the world. The main wheels are thirty* inches in 
diameter, the escapement is jeweled, and the pendulum, 
which is in itself a curiosity, is over fourteen feet in length. 
It is a curious fact that the pendulum bob weighs over 300' 



140 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

pounds ; but so finely finished is every wheel, pinion and 
pivot in the clock, and so little power is required to drive 
them, that a weight of only 100 pounds is all that is 
necessary to keep this ponderous mass of metal vibrating, 
and turn four pairs of hands on the dials of the cupola ! 
The clock does not stand, as many suppose, directly behind 
^he dials, but in the story below, and a perpendicular iron 
rod twenty-five feet in length connects it with the dial- 
works above. 

In the building are the several offices of the Mayor, 
Common Council and Aldermen, the Governor's room, City 
Library, and other business offices. 

The United States District Court is located in Chambers 
Street, at the rear of the City Hall. The several other 
Courts are held in the brown stone building, situated at the 
north-east angle of the City Hall, 

THE HALL OF RECORDS, 

Located to the east of the City Hall, was originally used for 
a prison, and subsequently as a cholera hospital. It is of 
coarse stone stuccoed over ; the entrances north and south 
are ornamented with Ionic columns. The building is now 
used as the Depository for Deeds, Records, &c. 

THE HALLS OF JUSTICE. 

This is the city prison, or as it is more familiarly styled, 
from its gloomy aspect, "the Tombs." It is a spacious 
building, or rather series of buildings, occupying the square 
bounded by Centre Street on the east. Elm Street on the 
west, and Franklin and Leonard Streets on the north and 
south. It is a massive structure in the Egyptian style, the 
main entrance being by an ascent of steps beneath a large 
portico supported by massive Egyptian columns. The 
Court of Sessions, Police Court, and others, are held in this 
building. It also comprises the prison, which has about 
150 cells. The house of detention measures 142 feet by 45. 
The place f|f execution of criminals is the interior court- 
yard. The edifice was completed in 1838. On application 
to the keeper, visitors may obtein admission to the 
building. 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 141 

THE UNrrED STATES TREASURY AND ASSAY OFFICE, 



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On the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, is a splendid 
building, constructed in the Doric order of Grecian architec- 
ture. It is built in the most substantial manner of white 
marble, something after the model of the Parthenon at 
Athens ; as a piece of masonry, it is equal to any structure 
extant, and to judge from appearances, likely to become as 
enduring as the pyramids ; it occupies the site of the old 
Federal Hall. The building is 200 feet long, 80 feet high ; 
at tho southern end, on Wall Street, is a portico of eight 
purely Grecian columns, 5 feet 8 inches in diameter, and 34 
feet high ; and on the northern end, on Pine Street, is a cor- 
responding portico of similar columns. The front portico is 
ascended by eighteen marble steps, and the rear portico, on 
Pine Street, by only three or four marble steps. It is two 
lofty stories high above the basement story. The great bus- 
iness hall is a splendid room, 60 feet in diameter. The cost 
of the building, including the ground, was $1,195,000. 

THE CITY ARMORY. 

The old City Armory or Arsenal, is situated at the junc- 
tion of Elm and White Streets, extending 84 feet on Elm, 
and 131 feet on White Street. The edifice is so construct- 
ed, that in case of any popular tumult, it could be defended 
by a garrison of 50 men. The ground floor is used as a 
gun-room, and the upper room for drilling, &c. The style 
of the architecture is a kind of gothic, with castellated 
towers. This arsenal contains a portion of the artillery of 
the first division of the New York State Militia. It is intend- 
ed that a large flagstaff shall be erected on the centre of the 
roof of this building, in order that telegraphic communica- 
tions may be conveyed by wires from it to the new arsenal 
up town, which is situated on the corner of thirty-fifth 
street and Seventh Avenue. 

DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS 

Have erected on the corner of Eleventh Street and Third 
Avenue a neat and substantial building, which they occupy. 
This very important department was created by an act of 
the State Legislature, and is the most benevolent institution 



142 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

in the city. Almost hourly through the winter the rooms 
are crowded with, applicants for relief, whose wants are 
amply and promptly attended to. A large and very t fii- 
cient corps of assistants are emploj'^ed to carry out the ob- 
jects for which this institution was created. This depart- 
ment is under the management of a Board of Five Commis- 
sioners, who have entire control over all the public institu- 
tions of the city, including Randall's, Ward's and BliickwelFs 
Islands. And person desirous of visitiug any or all of these 
places, can obtain permits as this office. 



THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, 

Occupying the building which was formerly the Merchants' 
Exchange, is located between Wall street, Exchange Place, 
William and Hanover streets. The material employed in 
its construction is blue Quincy granite, and it is characterised 
by fine proportions and massive substantial appearance. Its 
dimensions are on such a scale as to produce a line archi- 
tectural effect, being in length 200 feet; in width, from 144 
to 171 ; while it has an elevation of 77 feet at the cornice, 
and 124 at the top of the dome. The portico of eighteen 
Ionic columns, which graces its front, imparts to it an im- 
posing cHect. The interior of the building fully sustains the 
impression ; for, besides the numerous apartments set apart 
to various uses, it contfiins a rotunda in the centre, sur- 
mounted by a lofty dome, which is supported in part by 
eight Corinthian columns of Italian marble. This rotunda is 
capable of containing 3,000 persons. Its entire cost, including 
the ground, was over $1,800,000. 1'he architect was Isaiah 
Ilogers; and it was built on the site of the old Exchange, 
destroyed by the fire of 1835. 1 he original stockholders lost 
every penny of their investment, it having been sold to 
other hands to defray the mortgage held by the Barings of 
London. 



THE MERCHANTS EXCHANGE 



Is now held in William street, near Exchange place. The 
Merchants' Exchange sales-room is in the Trinity Building, 
on Broadway, north of Trinity Church. 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 143 

THE POST OFFICE, 



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In Nassau street, between Cedar and Liberty streets, was 
formerly the Middle Dutch Church. At a time — namely, 
during the war of the Revolution — when most of the 
churches were turned to military use by the British, this 
one sustained the greatest injuries ; which more or less, 
however, fell upon all. In 1790 it received such repairs as 
fitted it again for public worship ; but it was afterwards 
secured by the government and devoted to its present use — 
that of a post-office. Its internal arrangements are exten- 
sive, and well adapted to the objects of its present use. 
The postmaster's room is so situated as to command a view 
of all that is going on in the building. It w^as in the old 
wooden steeple of this building that Franklin practised his 
experiments in electricity. 

The New Post Office, now in process of construction on a 
site situated at the southern end of the City Hall Park, 
promises to be the finest structure of the kind in the United 
States. A brief sketch of it wHl be found elsewhere. 



THE ASTOR LIBRARY, 



No 6 Lafayette Place, one block east of Broadway, owes its 
existence to the noble bequest of its founder, John Jacob 
Astor, Esq., who, in a codicil to his will, appropriated the 
sum of $400,000 for its establishment and maintenance. An 
act for its incorporation passed the Legislature of New York 
in 1849, constituting the following named persons, previously 
selected by Mr. Astor, as a Board of Trustees, namely — 
Washington Irving, Wm. B. Astor, Daniel Lord, James G. 
King, Joseph G. Cogswell, Fitzgreene Halleck, Samuel B. 
Ruggles, Samuel Ward, Charles A Bristed, and the Mayor of 
New York ex-officio. To these gentlemen, or to their succes- 
sors, the administration of the afiairs of the library was con- 
signed. The will of Mr. Astor was proved on the 12th April, 
and on the 20th of May following the Trustees held their 
first meeting accepting their offices, and then appointea Mr. 
J. G. Cogswell, one of their members, Superintendent of the 
Library. According to the provisions of the bequest $75,000 
was the sum authorized to be applied for the erection of the 
building ; $120,000 for the purchase of books, and the residue 
of the $400,000 to be invested in real estate on Bond or 



144 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

Mortgages, the interest of which is to be applied to defray 
the expenses of maintaining the Library. In October follow- 
ing Mr. Cogswell was sent to Europe for the purchase of 
books. Meanwhile the Trustees had selected the site, and 
the plan of Mr. A. Saeltzer the architect for the Library 
edifice, which measures 65 feet front, by 120 feet in depth, 
and is in the Florentine style. This building now known as 
the South Library, was opened to the public on the 1st of 
February, 1850, with about 80,000 volumes, comprehending 
the several departments of knowledge. On the 1st Septem- 
ber, 1859, the new or North Library was completed, when the 
entire institution, wholly re-arranged, was re-opened. The 
new classification of the Library includes the grand division 
being fcr history and literature of all nations. The North or 
New Building and the original Hall for works in all depart- 
ments of Science. The new building and the ground on which 
it stands are the gifts of William B. Astor, Esq., who has 
also made several large donations to the Library, amounting 
in all to more than $25,000. The entire collection of books 
amounts to 140,000 volumes. The whole value of the estate 
is about $1,250,000. The real value of the collection, is not 
to be estimated by its numerical extent or its pecuniary cost, 
but by its intrinsic value of its books. In this respect the 
Astor Library takes precedence of all others in this country. 
J. G. Cogswell, collected and catalogued the Library. He 
resigned his office of Superintendent in 1861, and Mr. Scroe- 
der succeeded him. His resignation took place on the 1st 
of July, 1871, when Mr. E. R. Strazincky was appointed to 
the position, September 1st, 1871. The assistant librarians, 
are F. Saunders, W. Tyler. Present board of Trustees, 
Messrs W. B. Astor, J. J. Astor, J. B. Buggies, J. C. Bre- 
voort, J. H. Fish, J, B. Brodhead, J. A. Hamilton, W. Hop- 
pin, Dr. T. Markoe, Gen. Dix, and the Mayor of New York. 
Open from 9.30 to 5 p.m. 

THE NEW BIBLE HOUSE, 

Which is approached from Broadway through Astor Place, 
occupies three fourths of an acre of ground, bounded by 
Third and Fourth Avenues, and Eighth and Ninth Streets. 
The form of this gigantic edifice is nearly triangular. It 
has a front of 198 feet on Fourth Avenue, 202 on Eighth 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 145 

Street, 96 on Third Avenue, and 232 on Ninth Street. Its 
average depth is about 50 feet. It is the property of the 
American Bible Society. This imposing-looking edifice, 
which is substantially built of brick, with stone facings, cost 
nearly $300,000. The principal entrance, which is on the 
Fouith Avenue, has four columns, surmounted with cornice. 
In the fourth story is a stone figure representing Religion 
holding a Bible. 

The receipts of the Society, at the first year of its 
organization in 1816.17, were $37,779,35 ; its receipts since 
then amount to about $5,000,000. It has put in circulation 
about nine millions of Bibles and Testaments ; and given 
some $500,000 to various Missionary Stations to aid in the 
publications of the Holy Scriptures. It has supplied 
thousands of seamen and criminals with copies ; as well as 
distributed hundreds of thousands to private families, hotels, 
&c., in every part of the United States. It has produced 
editions of the Bible, or portions of it, in about 24 different 
dialects, and aided in issuing it in others. In this spacious 
building the following Societies have their Rooms — viz., the 
Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evan- 
gelical Knowledge, the American Board of Commissioners 
for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionery 
Society, the New York Colonization Society, Society for the 
Amelioration of the Condition of the Jews, the Home of 
Refuge, Children's Aid Society, Home of the Friendless. 
Nearly 600 persons are employed in the Bible House when 
in full operation. 

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 

Established upwards of half a century, have a noble edifice 
on the corner of Eleventh Street and Second Avenue. It 
is an elegant fire-proof structure, built of yellow sandstone 
from the province of New Brunswick, and is splendidly 
fitted up. Its literary collections consists of rare and valu- 
able books pertaining to the history and antiquities of the 
country ; also medals, coins, maps, engravings, &c. The 
Library comprises about 20,000 volumes. There is a fine 
Picture-gallery in the uppermost story ; the Library Hall, 
Lecture-room, and various offices are characterized by great 
architectural beauty. Recently there have been added a 



146 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

fine collection of Nineveh Marbles, presented by James 
Lenox, Esq., and Dr. Abbott's Egyptian Collection (obtained 
by liberal subscription), one of the most valuable museums 
of Egyptian i^ntiquities in the world. The meetings of the 
Society are held on the first Tuesday of each month ; there 
are also occasional Lectures given, in addition to the regular 
series. General F. Depeyster is the President, and the > 
membership of the association numbers about 1,500, in- 
cluding the leading literary men of the country. 

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 

Founded in 1842. The first President of this Society was 
the late Albert Gallatin, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, 
tfec, who held the office until his death in 1849. The object 
of the Society is " the prosecution of inquiries into the origin, 
progress, and characteristics of the various races of men." 
This Society has collected a large amount of materials, and 
has published three volumes of Transactions. The meetings 
are held at the houses of members, on the second Tuesday 
in each month. 

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. 

The new building for the National Academy of Design is 
one of the most remarkable structures in the city. Princi- 
pally so, because it is the most prominent example thus far 
set before the public, of the eftbrt now being made to revive 
the Gothic Architecture of the Thirteenth Century in its true 
spirit, and adapt it to our own circumstances, materials, and 
necessities. The public have, unfortunately, been led to call 
it Venetian Gothic ; and, from its similarity in proportion, 
and the fact that the upper story is decorated with diagonal 
lines of color introduced into the wall itself, and has no win- 
dows, that it is a copy of the fiimous Ducal Palace. But a care- 
ful examination, in comparison with a good photograph of 
that building, will dispel the delusion. 

The carvings on the capitals of the first and second stories 
are well worthy of careful examination, and are more j)ar- 
ticularly remarkable from the fact that they are almost en- 
tirely designed by the men who carved them, and are the 
result of careful study from natural leaves and flowers. The 
work of the architect, in connection with this decorative 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 147 

work, consisted principally of instructions given to the work- 
men in the art of design applied to their own work. 

The fronts of the buildings are built of white Westchester 
county marble, banded with grey-wacke. The ornamented 
iron work of the exterior is worthy of careful attention, being 
entirely wrought out on the anvil. The main entrance-gates 
are wonderful for their lightness, careful finish, and strength, 
being the most elaborate piece of architectural wrought iron 
in this country. 

The building is finished throughout with white pine, ash, 
mahogany, oak, and black walnut — no paint being used, but, 
all the woods showing their natural grain. 

The grand staircase approaching the galleries is of solid 
oak, trimmed with walnut, finished in wood on the under as 
well as upper sides. 

The interior accomodations consist as follows : — On the 
first floor are the janitor's apartments and the schools, with 
their appropriate dressing-rooms. On the second story are 
the reading-room, libraries, council-room, and lecture-room, 
together with necessary retiring-rooms and an office for busi- 
ness. On the third story are the grand central hall, four 
picture galleries, and the sculpture-room. This edifice has 
been erected at a cost of about $150,000, under the super- 
intendence of the architect, P. B. Wright, Esq., of this 
city. 

The annual exhibitions of the Academy are held during 
the months of April, May, June, and July, during which the 
building is open to the public for a small admission fee. 
The works of living artists only are exhibited, and no 
pictures are accepted that have been previously exhibited in 
New York. 

The exhibition of the Artists' Fund Society is generally 
held in the galleries of the Academy, and takes place in 
November and December annually. It is a noble charity, 
devoted to the relief of sick and poor artists. 

YOUNG men's christian ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

The association was organised, June 1852, for " the 
improvement of the spiritual, mental, social, and physical 
condition of young men." It was designed more parti- 
cularly for young men from the country who came to the 



148 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

great city to enter into business. These young men are- 
often crowded into uncomfortable boarding-houses, with 
little to make the evenings pass profitably or pleasantly^ 
and easily become a prey to those who are ever on the alert 
to lead young men into evil. The association carried on its 
work quietly, but successfully, in obscure rooms until 
December 1869, when they took possession of their spacious 
building on the corner of Twenty-third street and Fourth 
Avenue. 

The plot on which the building stands is in the form of 
an L, having a front of 86 feet on the Fourth Avenue, by 
100 feet in depth on Twenty third street, with an addition 
of three lots on Twenty- third street, 75 feet front and 100 
feet in depth, making the whole front on Twenty-third 
street 175 feet. The style of the building is French 
Renaissance, and it is faced with freestone in two colours, 
the general ground being of Belleville stone of a rich purple 
hue, and the mouldings and cornices being of bufl-coloured 
Ohio freestone, of a colour nearly complementary to the 
former. 

The front on the Fourth Avenue is divided into five 
bays, the two corner baj^s being more enriched than the 
central ones, and having pavilion roofs carried above the 
general line of the roof, and marking the corners of the 
building. 

The front on Twenty-third street has a central pavilion 
marking the principal entrance, five storys in height, and 
crowned by a square dome enriched by four dormer 
windows. 

The front is flanked at the corners by towers corres- 
ponding with those on the Fourth Avenue, and is divided 
into five bays on each side of the central pavilion. The 
various stories are expressed by rich cornices and bands on 
the facade ; and the central door is marked by columns and 
enrichments, and is surmounted by the arms of the associa- 
tion. The facade has a very imposing effect, from its size 
and proportion and beauty of detail. 

The building is divided vertically into a basement and 
five stories, except the central tower, which is six stories in 
height. 

The basement story is subdivided into a Bowling Alley, 
three Stores, and Bathing-rooms for members on the east side 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 149 

•of the central tower on Twenty-third street, and on the west 
side there are three Stores and a Gymnasium and its acces- 
sories. 

The Gymnasium also extends through the first story, and 
is 50 X 70 feet by 22 feet high. 

The basement under the central tower is used for heating, 
and other apparatus for the general convenience of the 
building. 

The central tower from the first to the fifth story contains 
the principal staircase, which is of stone in the first story, 
and of wood above, 

The first story is divided on the east side of the central 
tower into five stores, and on the west side into four stores, 
facing Twenty-third street, an entrance to the Lecture Hall 
on the westerly side with stone staircase, and behind which 
is the gymnasium. 

The second story, 18 feet high, is divided on the east side 
of the hall into the general Reception Room, 30x48 feet by 
18 feet high, from which a staircase leads to the Gymnasium, 
and another to the Class-rooms, Library, and smaller Lecture 
Room on the third story, so arranged that all visitors or 
members pass the Reception Room before going into any 
other apartment. Adjoining the general Reception Room 
are the reading-room 44x48 feet by 18 feet in height, and 
three Parlors, each 20x30 feet, and wash-room and coat 
closets. 

The Secretary's room, 13x22 feet, is over the central en- 
trance in front of the principal stairs, and communicates with 
the Reception Room and Lecture Hall. 

The Lecture Hall, 90x60, and the westerly stairs to the 
same, occupy the whole space to the west of the central en- 
trance on both the second and third stories, and is 36 feet 6 
inches in height, and divided by ornamental iron columns 
into 3 isles, and is enriched by arches between the columns 
and handsomely painted in fresco. The gallery of the Lec- 
ture Room is entered from the third story from the central 
and westerly stairs. The Lecture Hall will seat 1,575 per- 
sons comfortably, and has been found to be very well adapted 
to its purposes, its acoustic properties being very perfect and 
the ventilation extremely good. 

The third story on the east of the central hall is divided 
into three class rooms, the smaller Lecture Room, 36x45 feet 



150 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

"by 17 feet in height, and the Library, 30x72 feet, which is car- 
ried through the fourth story, and is 30 feet in height. 

The book-cases run along through both walls of the 
Library, and are reached by galleries and light iron stairs. 
The library is well lighted and neatly decorated in fresco. 

The fourth story to the west of the central hall is divided 
into studios ; there being eighteen studios on this floor. 

The fifth story is also divided into twenty-one studios. 

The building and lots cost $500,000. $350,000 was 
given to the association for this purpose by the merchants' 
interested in the work ; $150.(100 is on bond and mortgage. 
The building is elegantly furnished, and presents a cheering 
appearance during the long winter evenings. Open fires of 
English coals blaze in every room, and crowds of young men 
can be seen in every room with happy faces. Any young 
man is welcome, be he member or not. 

We take pleasure in inserting the following : — 

Building open daily from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. 

The reception-room and parlours are open on the Lord's 
Day, from 1 to half-past P. M. 

Conversational Bible class for young men, conducted by 
Prof W. H. Thompson, M.D., every Lord's Day, at 5 P. M. 

Tea is provided at 6 o'clock for the convenience of young 
men attending the class who ma}^ board at too great a 
distance to return in time for the evening service. 

Addresses to young men in Association Hall every 
Sunday evening, at half-past 7, by the clergymen of the 
various Evangelical churches of the city, followed by a brief 
prayer meeting. 

Monthly meeting, social and literary, fourth Monday 
evening. 

General reception of members and their lady friends, 
preceded by a concert, second Monday evening. 

Literary society every Friday evening. 

Weekly social religious meetings, for young men only, in 
the lecture-room, Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock ; and on 
Saturday evenings, at 9 o'clock, in the east parlor. 

Social worship in the east parlor every evening at half- 
past 9 o'clock. 

Union prayer meeting in the lecture-room every day at 
4 o'clock. 

Young men are cordially invited to the above meetings ichen 
they do not conflict luitli engagements in tlteir own churches. 



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CLASSES. 

German (Prof. Kuntzler) : Mondays, Wednesdays, and 
Fridays. 

French (Prof. David Clierbuliez) : Tuesdays, Thursdays, 
and Saturdays. 

Bookkeeping : Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 

Writing (Mr. T. P. Dolbear) : Mondays, Wednesdays, 
and Fridays. 

Glee Club (Prof J. Mosenthal) : Every Wednesday 
evening at 8 o'clock. 

Gymnastics (Mr. William Wood) : Every evening. 

A ticket costing $5 admits the own r to all the above 
classes^ and to the use of gymnasium^ howling-alley^ and baths 
for one year. 

Besides the buildings above described, the Association 
contains three branches. 

BRANCHES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 

WESTERN BRANCH, 285 HUDSON STREET. 

Open every Evening, from 7 to 10 o'clock. 

Bible Class every Lord's Day at half-past 3 p.m. 

Monthly Meeting, Social and Literary. Third Friday in 
each month. 

Free Lectures^ Second and Fourth Friday in each month, 
at 8 P.M. 

Social Gathering of Members and Lady friends, first Fri- 
day of each month. 

Prayer Meeting every Saturday Evening, at half-past 8 
o'clock. 

EASTERN BRANCH, 473 GRAND STREET, 

Open every Evening, from 7 to 10 o'clock. 

Singing Class every Monday Evening. 
Literary Class every Tuesday Evening. 
Monthly Meeting third Wednesday Evening. 
Prayer Meeting every Thursday Evening. 
Bible Class every Sunday, at half-past 4 p. m. 
Lectures and Sociables on Wednesday Evenings during 
the Winter. 



152 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

HARLEM BRANCH, 125tH ST., BET. 3d & 4tH AVENUES. 

Open every Evening, from 7 to 10 o'clock. 

Prayer Meeting every Sabbath, at 5 o'clock p. m. 

Monthly Meeting, Social and Literary, Third Monday 
Evening. 

Singing Class every Tuesday Evening during the Winter, 

Lectures, as announced by Lecture Committee. 

Executive Committee, second Thursday Evening. 

President, William E. Dodge, jr. ; Secretary, R. R. 
M'Burney. 

THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 

In Twenty-third street, corner of Lexington Avenue, was 
established in 1848, by the Board of Education of the city 
of New York, in pursuance of an act passed May 7, 1847, 
for the purpose of providing higher education for such 
pupils of the Common Schools as may wish to avail them- 
selves thereof The college is under the general superin- 
tendence of the Board of Education ; bui it is specially under 
the supervision of an Executive Committee, for its care, 
government, and management, appointed by the Board. 
All its expenses for instruction, apparatus, library, cabinet 
collections, books, and stationery, are paid out of the public 
treasury. 

The cost of the ground was $37,810, the edifice, $75,000, 
and the interior furniture, apparatus, tfec, $26,867. The 
building measures 125 feet by 80, and will accommodate 
1,000 pupils. 

The students are admitted in annual classes, and the full 
course of study embraces five years. 

The Board of Education is authorized by law to confer 
for the usual collegiate degrees on the recommendation of 
the faculty. 

Graduates may become "Resident Graduates," and con- 
tinue their studies at option. The Academical studies during 
Term time, continue daily (except Saturday and Sunday) 
from a quaiter before 9 o'clock a. m. to 3 o'clock p. m. 

MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 

Occupy the Clinton Hall building in Astor Place, Eighth 
street. This noble establishment comprises a fine library, 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 153 

reading-room, and lecture-room, also cabinets of minerals, 
<fec. Its literary collections numbering between 90,000 and 
100,000 volumes, in the several departments of general 
knowledge, including also a valuable series of periodical 
works, unsurpassed by any other institution. The number 
of its members at the present time exceeds 4000. This in- 
stitution, originally established for the use of clerks, has been 
since thrown open to the public on payment of the subscrip- 
tion, $5 per annum. Clerks pay $1 initiation fee, and $2 
subscription. 

THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY 

Is situated in University Place, near Twelfth street. This 
time-honored institution, founded in 1754, possesses a fine 
collection of books in general literature, numbering about 
38,000 volumes. Permanent members of this institution, by 
the payment of S25, and the annual fee of $6, become stock- 
holders. Temporary members are admitted on the payment 
of $10 per annum. To all these literary establishments, 
visitors are admitted. 

THE CITY LIBRARY 

Is in the City Hall, and is free to all persons. 

THE woman's library 

Is in the New York University Building, fronting on Wash- 
ington Square. 

THE LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 

Is a society of scientific men, formed for the study of natural 
history. Its rooms are in Fourteenth street, near the Fourth 
Avenue. It possesses a good library, and a large museum 
of minerals, plants, and specimens of natural history. It is 
accessible to the public. 

THE apprentice's LIBRARY, 

containing about 16,000 volumes for the use of youthful 
apprentices, is in the Mechanics' Hall," 472, Broadway, near 
Orand street. 



154 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

THE mechanics' INSTITUTE, 

No 20 Fourth Avenue, has a collection of upwards of 3,000 
volumes. There is a school attached for the education of 
the children of mechanics. 

TKE COOPER UNION 

Is a noble building erected by Mr. Peter Cooper, of New 
York, and is devoted to the '^ moral, intellectual, and phy- 
sical improvement of his countrymen." The building covers 
an entire block, having a front on Third Avenue of 195 feet, 
on Fourth Avenue 155, on Eighth street 143, and on 
Seventh street 86. It is in the immediate vicinity of the 
new Bible House, the Astor Library, the Mercantile Library, 
and the rooms of various literary and scientific societies. 
In the basement is a large lecture-room 125 feet long by 85 
wide, and 21 high ; and this, and also the first and second 
stories, which are arranged for stores and offices, are rented 
so as to produce a revenue to meet the annual expenses of 
the institute. The institute proper, or the " Union," com- 
mences with the third story, in which is an '' exhibition- 
room," 30 feet high and 25 by 82, lighted from above by a 
dome. The fourth story may be considered as a part of the 
third, being a continuation of galleries with alcoves for 
painting and sculpture. In the fifth story are two large 
lecture-rooms ; and the libi^ary, consisting of five rooms, 
which connect with each other and with the lecture-rooms. 
There are also rooms for experiments, for instruments, and 
for the use of artists. The cost of the building is about 
$300,000, and the annual income from the rented parts is 
from $25,000 to $30,000. The whole is under the control 
of a board of directors for the benefit of the public ; the 
course of lectures, the librar}^, and the reading-rooms are all 
free. In the munificence both of the gift and the endowment, 
the Cooper Institute stands as a monument to its noble- 
hearted founder more enduring than the pyramids. The 
School of Design for women has rooms in this building. 

ODD FELLOWS HALL, 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows number, in New 
York city, about 90 lodges, and about 12 encampments, in 



PUBLIC BUILDINGS, 155 

eluding many thousand members ; many of the lodges have 
fine halls, in various parts of this city and the neighboring 
cities of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City, &c. ; but the 
grand rendezvous of the order is the large brown-stone build- 
ing at the corner of Grand and Centre streets, erected at a 
cost of Si 25,000. This imposing edifice presents a noble 
appearance, being substantially built, lofty, and surmounted 
by a dome. It contains a series of highly ornamented lodge- 
rooms, richly furnished and in different styles of architec- 
ture : some Egyptian, Grecian, Elizabethan, &c. These 
elegant apartments are well worth a visit. The average 
receipts of the association which owns this edifice is estimat- 
ed • at about $75,000. Their distribution in the form of 
benefactions to the sick and poor, is on a scale of corres- 
ponding liberality. 

ANCIENT AND HONORABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED 

MASONS. 

The M. W. Grand Lodge of the ancient and honorable 
fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New 
York, meets at such commodious place as may be appointed 
on the first Tuesday in March, June, September, and De- 
cember. Subordinate lodges meet every evening in Crosby 
street, corner of Broome street, and at Odd Fellows Hall, 
Grand and Centre streets. 

THE AMERICAM GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL SOCIETY 

Of New York, hold their monthly meetings at Clinton Hall^ 
Astor Place. C. P. Dally, president. 

THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 

Is located on the east side of Washington Square, and forms 
a noble architectural ornament, being of the English colle- 
giate style of architecture. The University was established 
in 1831, and has ever maintained its high reputation. It 
has a chancellor, and a corps of professors in the various 
departments of learning. There is also a grammar school 
connected with the institution ; also, a valuable library, 
philosophical apparatus, &c. The edifice is of marble, and 
measures about 200 feet in front by 100 in depth ; it pre- 



156 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

sents a very beautiful appearance as seen through the thick 
foliage of the park. The great central gothic window 
lights the chapel of the University ; divine service is held 
here every Sunday at the usual hours. The principal en- 
trance is by the centre door, up a flight of marble steps. In 
the upper parts of the building are several chambers and 
offices, occupied by various societies, literary persons, and 
artists. 

COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 

Originally chartered by George II, in 1754, under the title 
of King's College, till within a short period, stood in Park 
Place. The present edifice is on Forty-ninth Street, near 
the Fifth Avenue. It has a president and twelve professors ; 
a choice library of rare classical works of about 18,000 vols., 
museum, &c. A grammar school is attached to the institu- 
tion, over which a professor presides as rector. 

COLLEGE OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. 

This instiiution, situated on Fifteenth Street, between 
Fifth and Sixth Avenues, was founded in 1850. With its 
Grammar School it contains about four hundred pupils. The 
library contains about 15,000 volumes. The Rev. Joseph 
Xioyzance is president. 

MANHATTAN COLLEGE. 

This newly incorporated University is situated at Man- 
hattanville. 



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THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



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THE UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. 

Is situated No. 9 University Place, between Waverley Place 
and Eighth Street. The principal edifice comprises four 
large lecture rooms, chapel, library of 16,000 volumes, and 
studies, also other rooms for students. It has six professors, 
and usually about 100 students. It was founded in 1836. 

THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 

Of the Episcopal Church is situated in Twentieth Street, 
corner of Ninth Avenue, near the Hudson, two miles from 
the City Hall. There are two handsome buildings of stone, 
for the accommodation of professors and students. The 
Board of Trustees consists of all the bishops, and one 
trustee from each diocese in the United States. The insti- 
tution is well endowed and in a flourishing condition. 



158 

PUBLIC WORKS 



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THE CROTON AQUEDUCT, 

By which the city is supplied with pure water, is one of the 
most gigantic enterprises of the kind undertaken in any 
country. The distance which the water travels through 
this artificial channel, exclusive of the grand reservoir, is 
about forty miles. The Dam crosses the Croton River six 
miles from its mouth, and the whole distance from this dam, 
thirty-two miles, is one unbroken' under-ground canal, 
formed of stone and brick. The great receiving reservoir 
is on York Hill, five miles from the City Hall ; it can re- 
ceive a depth of water to the extent of twenty feet, and is 
capable of containing 150,000,000 gallons. Two miles 
further on is the distributing reservoir, at Murray Hill. 
This reservoir is of solid masonry, built in the Egyptian 
style of architecture, with massive buttresses, hollow granite 
walls, &c. On the top of the wall is an inclosed promenade. 
It is three miles from the City Hall. The cost of this im- 
mense undertaking was over thirteen millions of dollars. 

During the past year the works have been thoroughly 
examined and repaired from the Croton Dam to the receiv- 
ing reservoir at an immense cost. In connection with this 
a typographical survey of the valley of the Croton was 
effected, by which it appears that the ridge defining the 
waters above the point at which the Aqueduct begins, 
measures 101 miles. Within this circuit there are 31 lakes 
and ponds ; and the aggregate area of waters, including the 
tributaries, is 352 square miles ; which is equal to 96,034 
gallons per square mile during the driest season. Yet 
large as this supply may appear, the resources of the 
Brooklyn water-works are nearly six times as great. 

Among the improvements now contemplated in these 
colossal works is the erection of still another immense 
reservoir in the north eastern part of the city, provided with 
a high column (pumped up by steam) in order to increase 
the pressure in the pipes of the division where the present 
head of water is ineffective, owing to the altitude of the 
ground. 

The immense New Reservoir cost $2,250,000 when 
completed. 



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PUBLIC WORKS. 159 

The New Reservoir is located at York Hill, in the 
Central Park, between Eighty-fifth and Ninety-seventh 
streets. The gate-houses, which are to cost $193,513, are 
to be built in the outer reservoir bank, and at the ends of 
the central bank of the new reservoir, the aqueduct will 
extend therefrom to about 50 feet east of the existing 
aqueduct, near the Ninth Avenue. The south gate-house 
will be located near Eighty-sixth street ; 83 feet long, 40 
feet wide, and 42 feet above the pavement of the bays, 
which are to be divided. The masonry will be very massive, 
and supported by buttresses four feet wide and sixteen feet 
high. The north gate-house will be 72 feet by 40, and 
correspond with the other so far as relates to distribution 
and w^aste-pipes, &c. 

HIGH BRIDGE. 

This most important structure -connected with the 
Croton Aqeduct is situated at the distance of about eight 
miles from the City Hall. It is thrown across the Harlem 
valley and river. It spans the whole width of the valley 
and river at a point where the latter is G20 feet wide, and 
the former a quarter of a mile. Eight arches, each with a 
span of 80 feet, compose this structure ; ana the elevation 
of the arches gives 100 feet clear of the river from their 
lower side. Besides these there are several other arches 
rising from the ground, the span -of which is somewhat more 
than half that of the first mentioned. The material 
employed throughout the whole of this imposing object is 
granite. The works cost $900,000. The water is led over 
this bridge, which is 1,450 feet in extent, in iron pipes ; and 
over all is a pathway, which, though wide enough for 
carriages, is available to pedestrians only. The fare by a 
carriage, allowing passengers to remain two or three hours 
at the bridge, is $5. It can be reached pleasantly and ex- 
peditiously by the Harlem Railroad (Depot Fourth Avenue 
and Twenty-sixth street), or in summer by the Third 
Avenue Railroad and steamboat from Harlem. 



160 

FORTS AND FORTIFICATIONS. 



The national defences of New York comprise the follow- 
ing : — The strong fortifications of the Narrows — on the one 
side, Forts Hamilton and Lafayette, the latter having three 
tiers of guns, &c. ; on the other side, Forts Tompkins and 
Richmond, situated on Staten Island heights. To protect 
the inner harbor, there are Forts Columbus and Castle 
William, on Governor's Island; and the works on Bedlow's 
and Ellis' Islands. 

Castle William, measuring 600 feet in circumference, 
and 60 feet high, is a circular stone battery, with maga- 
zines, &c. 

Fort Columbus, on the same island, connects with the 
former. Here are barracks and a corps of the United States 
troops. 

Governor's Island — formerly known as Nut Island, from 
its formerlv beina: covered with nut-trees — was, in colonial 
times, used by the English governors as pleasure-grounds. 
The several fortifications here may be easily seen by taking 
a boat from Castle Garden, foot of the battery. There are 
other fortifications for the defence of Long Island Sound, and 
also towards Sandy Hook. 



161 
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 



blackwell's island. 



A visit to the several establishments on this island, will 
well repay any one interested in the efforts for ameliorating 
human suffering. There are on the island, the Penitentiary, 
with its 500 to 1000 convicts, the Alms-house Hospital, the 
Lunatic Asylum, and the New Work-house, — which last is 
one of the most complete edifices in the country. It is built 
of stone taken from the quarries of the island. It is a very 
spacious building, being capable of holding about 600 per- 
sons ; all its internal arrangements are very complete. The 
humane object of this institution is to separate vagrants from 
criminals, and to compel all to woi^k who are able to do 
something towards their own support. The building, which 
is 325 feet in length, cost about $100,000. Tickets for ad- 
mission to the island can be obtained of the Secretary of the 
Governors of the Alms-house Department, at the Rotunda 
rear of the City Hall. There are various modes of convey- 
ance thither, — by the Second or Third Avenue cars, and by 
steamer which leaves foot of Twenty-seventh street, East 
River, or by the Harlem stage from' 23 Chatham street to 
Sixty-first street, and cross to the island at any hour. 

ward's island 

May also be visited by the same conveyances, on obtaining 
a permit from the Commissioners of Emigration, at their 
office in the New City Hall, near the junction of Chambers 
and Centre streets. 

Randall's island. 

May be reached also by boat from foot of 27th street, E. R. 
each day at noon. Here are the nm-series for the suj^port and 
instruction of destitute children. This institution is the most 
interesting of all, and commends itself to the sympathies of 
all who would become acquainted, with the benevolent agen- 
cies of New York city. Permits may be had, as for Black- 
well's Island. There are usually to be seen here, in the several 
institutions, from 4,000 to 5,000 persons yovmg and old. 

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] G'2 BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 



THE NEW YORK ORPHAN ASYLUM. 



Situated in Bloomingdale, near Eightieth street, comprises a 
fine building 120 feet by 60, and nine acres of ground, laid 
out with much taste. These p-rounds command a splendid 
view of the Hudson and East Rivers with the surrounding 
scenery. There are in this institution about 200 orphans. 
The institution was incorporated by charter in 1807, and its 
present edifice was completed in 1840. It is a most praise- 
worthy institution, and a very interesting one to visit. 

THE BLOOMINGDALE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, 

A branch of the New York Hospital, is situated in the 
Bloomingdale Road, at a distance of about seven miles from 
the City Hall. It occupies a most beautiful and command- 
ing site, and its approach and surroundings are admirably 
fitted to lighten the sense of depression and gloom which 
we instinctively associate with every establishment of the 
kind. The treatment administered to its unfortunate in- 
mates, too, is of the most enlightened, humane, and rational 
sort. The principal building is 211 feet in length, 60 in 
depth, and four stories in height, with side buildings. 

The approach to the Asylum from the southern entrance, 
by the stranger who associates the most sombre scenes with 
a lunatic hospital, is highly pleasing. The sudden opening 
of the view, the extent of the grounds, the various avenues 
gracefully winding through so large a lawn, the cedar 
hedges, the fir and other ornamental trees tastefully dis- 
tributed or grouped, the variety of shrubbery and flowers. 

The central building, is always open to visitors ; 
and the view from the top of it, being the most extensive 
and beautiful of any in the vicinity of the city, is well 
worthy of their attention. 

THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL, 

Situated on the corner of Duane and Church streets 
(entrance 319 Broadway), is a most important benevolent 
institution. It dates back to 1771, when it was founded by 
the Earl of Dunmore, who was at that time governor of the 
colony. The accommodation for patients is not very exten- 
sive, though excellent in every respect. It is a receptacle 



BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS, 163 

in cases of sudden accident. It is not altogether gratuitous ; 
but, to such as are able to pay a little, it offers most im- 
portant advantages, Si a week commanding the best medical 
attendance, besides nursing and medicine. The students, 
too, have the benefit, for a small annual fee, -of accompanying 
the surgeons in their rounds. The institution has an annual 
revenue, from various sources, of about $80,000, which is 
expended in support of the establishment. Owing to the 
gigantic strides of commerce, it was found desirable, a few 
years ago, to dispose of the larger portion of the hospital 
grounds for business purposes. 

THE BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, 

Under the management of the Board of Commissioners of 
Charities and Correction, is located at Twenty-sixth street 
and East River. The accommodations here are also 
excellent. 

jews' HOSPITAL 

Is located at 158 West Twenty-eight street. 

children's hospital and nursery, 
East Fifty-first street, near Lexington Avenue. 

In connection with the New York Hospital may be men- 
tioned, 

the new YORK dispensaries, 

Which are associations for giving medicine and medical ad- 
vice to the poor. The Northern Dispensary, situated on the 
corner of Christopher and Sixth streets, was founded in 1829 ; 
and the Eastern Dispensary, on the corner of Ludlow street 
and Essex Market Place, was instituted in 1834. There is 
also a still older Dispensary on the corner of White and 
Centre streets, established in 1795 ; and is estimated to have 
^iven relief to more than fifty thousand patients since its first 
organization. 

THE DEMILT DISPENSARY 

Is a fine building at the corner of the Second Avenue and 
Twenty-third street, which with the ground cost $30,000 — 



164 BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

the noble donation of the late Miss Demilt. About 3,000' 
patients are annually benefited by this noble charity of a 
single benefactor. 

THE ASYLUM FOR AGED INDIGENT FEMALES 

Is located in Twentieth street, near Second Avenue. Its title 
indicates sufficiently the object of the institution, which is 
both well filled and well sustained. 

ST. Luke's hospital, 

At the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fourth street, is an 
admirable charity institution, sustained by members of the 
Episcopal Churches of New York. 

the new YORK JUVENILE ASYLUM, 

A stone edifice, situated near High Bridge, is a home and re- 
formatory for neglected children. The asylum, by its charter, 
becomes the legal guardian of all such children as may be 
committed to it by the voluntary act of their parents or by 
the precept of a police magistrate. The institution owes its 
origin to Dr. J. D. Russ of this city, so favorably known for 
his exertions in establishing the New York Institution for 
the Blind. The success of the institution has been largely 
promoted by A. R. Wetmore, Esq., who has been its president 
and financier almost from its organization. It occupies about 
20 acres of ground, which is in part cultivated by the children, 
who, during their stay in the asylum, are instructed in all 
the branches of a common school education. As soon as their 
improvement will warrant their removal, they are sent to 
the Great West and indentured, where, in a few years, instead 
of being drawn into the vortex of crime as they almost in- 
evitably would have been, if left unprotected in our streets, 
they will many of them become our law-makers and occupy 
places of trust. The institution has a house of reception for 
200 children, at No. 7 1 West 1 hirteenth street. All children, 
when first committed, must remain in this house ten days, to 
afford their parents an opportunity of reclaiming them. 
The two buildings can accommodate about 700. Take Hud- 
son River railroad or Manhattanville stages to Fort Washing- 
ton or High Bridge. 



BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 165 

, COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. 

This is a handsome edifice, corner of Twenty-third street 
and Fourth Avenue. It was founded in 1807, has eight 
professors and about two hundred students. There is a small 
library here of about 1,500 volumes, and an anatomical 
museum. These museums are accessible to the public on 
application to the janitor. 

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE 

Is located at No. 90 East Thirteenth street. It was char- 
tered in 1850, and is devoted to the instruction of young 
medical practitioners. It possesses a valuable anatomical 
museum, chemical laboratory, &c. There is also in this 
buildhig the College of Pharmacy. 

THE INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. 

This noble and well-conducted asylum is situated at 
Fanwood, Washington Heights, on 162d street, which is 
reached by means of the Hudson River Railroad. The prin- 
cipal building measures 110 feet by 60, and is five stories 
high. It is capable of accommodating from 200 to 300 
pupils, exclusive of the principal and teachers, &c. It is one 
of the best-endowed institutions of benevolence in New York ; 
being sustained by appropriations made by the State Legis- 
lature, by the City Corporation, and private benefactions. 
The pupils are instructed in the ordinary branches of 
learning, and some of them in the various trades. Dr. Peet 
is the superintendent. Open to the public from half-past 
1 to 4 A.M. everv dav. 

THE INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND 

Is on the Ninth Avenue, between Thirty-third and Thirty- 
fourth streets, occupying thirty-two lots of ground, presented 
by James Boorman, Esq. The edifice is of granite, and of 
the Gothic order of architecture. It owes its origin mainly 
to Dr. J. D. Russ, whose attention was directed to the sight- 
less condition of a large number of the children in the City 
Alms House. Moved by the spectacle, he determined to 
devote himself to their relief, and for that purpose took 



166 BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

seven children from the Ahns House and gratuitolisly in- 
structed them for nearly two years, and finally obtained the 
passage of an act by the Legislature for their support. In 
this effort he was ably supported by Samuel Wood, a well- 
known member of the Society of Friends, and Dr. Samuel 
Akerly, distinguished for his zeal and labours in behalf of 
the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Here also the usual 
branches of education are taught, and the pupils are in- 
structed in the several useful arts of life. It is an exceed- 
ingly useful object to visit, as is also the Deaf and Dumb 
Asylum. The institution is open to visitors on week days 
from 1 to 6 p. m., and may be conveniently reached by stages 
and cars that run on the Eighth Avenue. 

THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY AND HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS 

Is located on Thirtieth street, between Fourth and Madison 
Avenues. It is under the direction of a society devoted to 
the protection of deserted children, and adult persons who 
may be in distress. This association has largely •contributed 
to the relief of the poor and destitute of the city, — in one 
year it relieved, and provided with places, over 600 young 
and old. The society publishes a paper semi-monthly, en- 
titled The Advocate and Guardian^ which has a circulation 
of about 15,000 copies ; it has also published over 10,000 
tracts, &c. 

THE HOUSE AND SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY 

Has its rooms No 100 West Sixteenrh street. It was organiz- 
ed in 1850. 

THE SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF POOR WIDOWS WITH SMALL 

CHILDREN, 

Was organized in 1797, by the efforts of the late Mrs. Isabella 
Graham. Its average number of persons relieved, is about 
200 widows and 500 children. Mrs. L. Perkins, first 
directress, 78 West Fourteenth street. 

THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, 

In the Five Points, near Centre and Pearl streets. Mr. S. 
B. Halliday now has charge of the House of Industry. Placed 
in the very midst of squalid poverty and crime, this excellent 



BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 167 

charity has achieved great results in rescuing and reclaiming 
the youth of vicious parentage. Mr. Pease's institution dates 
back ohly to 1848, yet thus far has its progress been incom- 
parably the most successful of any of the numerous noble 
charities of New York. Persevering through numberless 
difficulties, Mr. Pease at length has achieved a great success 
in his laudable enaeavors. He has now from 100 to 200 in- 
mates, rescued from the purlieus of vice and poverty ; hope- 
fullv eno'ao-ed in his House of Industrv. Since its foundation, 
between 800 and 900 women have been sent out to places in 
the country. By his economical plan, the major part of the 
expenses of the establishment have been defrayed by the 
productive labor of the inmates. 

LEAKE & WATTS ORPHAN HOUSE. 

This praiseworthy institution, founded by the two bene- 
volent persons whose names it bears, is located on Ninth 
Avenue, corner of West 111th street, and, as its name implies, 
is the orphan's friend. 

THE MAGDALEN FEMALE ASYLUM, 

Situate west of the Harlem railroad, on Eighty-eighth street, 
near Fifth Avenue. This praiseworthy institution, as its 
name indicates, has been established for the recovery and 
restoration of fallen and distressed females. It is well sus- 
tained ; and by the sslf-sacrificing labors of the benevolent, 
has been productive of great good. 

THE sailors' SNUG HARBOR, 

An Asylum for aged and infirm seamen, is situated on the 
north side of Staten Island. It was founded by Capt. Ran- 
dall in 1801, and incorporated in 1806 in New York ; the 
present noble building on Staten Island, measures 225 feet in 
length, with 160 acres of ground ; about 300 aged and dis- 
abled seamen are here supported. Near the Quarantine 
grounds, are the Seamen's Retreat for the sick, and the Home 
for Sailor's Children, also the Marine Hospital, which is sup- 
ported by an emigrant tax of $2 on every cabin passenger, 
native of a foreign country, and 50 cents for every steerage 
passenger. The fund from these sources, amounts to nearly 



168 BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION?. 

$100,000 per annum. There is yet another benevolent 
marine society, styled the American Seamen's Friend Society, 
whose object is to bring good influences to bear upon this 
class, by preaching and by opening boarding-houses, reading- 
rooms, savings banks, &c. 

The Marine Scciety's office is at 67 Wall-street. 

St. George's Society of New York, 40 Exchange Place. 

St. Andrew's Society, 90 Broadway. 

St. Nicholas Society, 11 Wall street. 

New England Society, Astor House. 

Italian Benevolent Society, 685 Broadway. 

Irish Emigrant Society, 51 Chambers street. 

Hibernian Benevolent Society, 195 West Seventeenth st. 

German Society of New York, 5 Battery Place. 

Hebrew Benevolent Society, 3d Avenue and East 77th 
street. 

German Society of New York, 5 Battery Place. 

Hebrew Benevolent Society, Third Avenue and East 77th 
street. 

German Mutual Assistance Society, 17 North William st. 

Ancient Order of Hibernians, 215 Hester street. 

The respective addresses of Societies not given in this 
list are to be found in the New York Directory. 



169 
THE ENVIRONS OF THE CITY. 



The environs of New York abound in picturesque retreats 
for the lover of rural beauty. Not only are abundant facili- 
ties rendered available to the pleasure tourist, in the multi- 
plicity of modes of conveyance by land or by water, but the 
geographical position of the metropolis places within the 
circuit of a few miles almost every variety of beautiful 
scenery, as well as villages, towns, and localities of historic 
interest. For a cool sea-breeze and pleasing aquatic excur- 
sion, the trip by the steamer for Shrewsbury and Long 
Branch, or Coney Island, will be found full of interest. 
Boats for the former leave foot of Robinson street, North 
River, and Peck Slip, East River, daily ; for the latter the 
boat starts from the foot of Battery Place. 

STATEN ISLAND 

Is a place of much attraction as a summer resort, and the 
boats make the trip every hour from Whitehall Dock, near 
the Battery. The scenery is exceedingly fine ; and the 
drives to the Telegraph Station, Stapleton, Richmond, New 
Brighton, with their clusters of beautiful villas and country 
seats, are full of attraction. 

HOBOKEN. 

On the New Jersey shore is Hoboken, with its Elysian 
fields and pleasure grounds, the bold bluffs of Weehawken, 
the Sybil's cave, and the memorable spot of the duel between 
Colonel Burr and General Hamilton. The boats for Hoboken 
leave every half-hour from Canal street, Barclay street, and 
Christopher street ferries. 

FLUSHING. 

A pleasant trip to the entrance of Long Island Sound 
brings one to Flushing — a remarkably rural and picturesque 
town, with extensive botanic gardens, nurseries, and nu- 
merous elegant residences. It is a chosen suburban retreat 
of the New Yorkers. The Flushing boat leaves twice a day 
the dock adjoining the Fulton Ferry. 



170 ENVIRONS. 

FORT HAMILTON, 

An attractive place on the southwestern shore of Long Island, 
about five miles from the city ; and 



CONEY ISLAND, 

A short distance beyond, forming a part of Gravesend Town- 
ship, is a sea-girt barren sand-heap, but commands a splendid 
view of the ocean, and is a place of much resort by bathers. 
Cars from Brooklyn, and boats New York, leave daily for 
these places. 

JAMAICA, 

Which is easy of access by the L. I. Railroad, South Ferry, 
which leaves three or four times a day, is an interesting old 
rural town, and is the highway of communication to Hemp- 
stead, Greenpoint, Eockaway, and Montauk : the last named 
on the extremity of the island, affords a magnificent view of 
the broad ocean, which there skirts the horizon in almost 
every direction. There is a remnant of pure Indians still 
living on this eastern extremity of the coast. 

throg's point 

Is another pleasing excursion. Sixteen miles from the city. 
It is the termination, at Long Island Sound, of Throg's, or 
rather Throgmorton's Neck. From this headland, which 
divides the East River from the Sound, a very splendid 
view is obtained. Fort Schuyler, on the point, and Pelham 
Bridge, may be embraced in this excursion. 

ASTORIA. 

An eighth excursion may take for its terminus the 
thriving village of Astoria, six miles to the north-east of 
New York. The academy, botanic gardens, <fec., are worthy 
.of notice ; but its most interesting feature is the singular 
whirlpool in its neighborhood, denominated Helle Gat — 
" Hell Gate ''—by the Dutch. 



ENVIRONS. 171 



CROTON DAM, 



A visit to the great Croton Aqueduct is one of the most 
interesting expeditions, as well as the easiest, that could be 
devised. The village of Croton is about 35 miles from the 
city, which is reached best by the Hudson River Railroad. 
The famous Dam pertaining to the works is well worthy of 
a visit. The lake, measuring five miles, covers an area of 
400 acres ; it is formed by a dam 250 long, and 38 feet wide 
at the base, allowing a discharge of 60 million gallons of 
water daily. 



172 
FASHIONABLE WATERING PLACES. 



NEW PORT. 



The routes to Newport, R. I., from New York are by Fall 
River line of steamboats ; or via New Haven, New" London 
& Stonington, to Wickford, there connecting by ferry with 
Newport. Newport is situated on an island in Narragansett 
Bay, and has long been celebrated as a healthy locality and 
fashionable watering-place. The cool sea-breezes, which 
moderate the heat of summer, and the splendid views New- 
port affords, combine to render it an attractive and favorite 
resort. The hotel accommodations are unsurpassed, and pri- 
vate boarding-houses numerous. Visitors and invalids will 
find plenty of amusement in fishing, sailing, sea-bathing, &c. 
Distance from New York, 165 miles. The Ocean House has 
first-class accommodations for 400 guests. The Fillmore and 
Aquidreck are the only other houses open. 

LONG BRANCH. 

Long Branch, N. J., is thirty miles from New York, on 
the eastern shore. Steamboats " Jesse Hoyt" and " Ply- 
mouth Rock" leave New York from Pier 28, North River, 
for Sandy Hook, connecting there with New Jersey Southern 
Railway for Long Branch. 

For those who enjoy sea-bathing, Long Branch offers par- 
ticular inducements. Hotels : Mansion, United States, Con- 
tinental, and West End. 

ROCKAWAY BEACH. 

Visitors to Rockaway Beach proceed from New York to 
Brooklyn, thence by South Side Railway via Jamaica. The 
Beach affords excellent bathing, and has become quite a 
fashionable watering-place. 

CAPE MAY. 

This is a fashionable and very delightful resort during the 
summer months, and is much frequented by parties from 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the West. Cape May may be 
reachep by the Philadelphia and Cape May Railway Lines, 
from the Ferry, foot of Market street, Philadelphia, or by the 
steamboat lines from New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. 



WATERING PLACES. 173 



SARATOGA. 



Persons visiting Saratoga from New York can take 
either the Hudson River or Harlem Railway cars, or the 
steamboat to Albany or Troy — from Albany, via Albany 
division of Rensselaer and Saratoga Railway ; from Troy^ 
vi Rensselaer and Saratoga Railway, 

Saratoga Springs is the most celebrated watering-place 
in the United States, and is resorted to by persons from all 
parts of the Union. It is situated in northern New York, 
184 miles from New York Citv, and 39 miles north of 
Albany. 

The largest hotels are the Congress, Union Hall, and 
Clarendon. Congress Hall has been rebuilt during the past 
year. 

Saratoga Lake, seven miles from the springs, is a pretty 
sheet of water, with good boating and fishing. A fine 
carriage-drive is now being made from the springs to the 
lake, which, when finished, will add much to the attractions 
of Saratoga. 

NIAGARA FALLS. 

These falls can be reached from New York by the 
Hudson River and New York Central and Erie Railways. 

Niagara Falls are situated on the Niagara River, fourteen 
miles from Lake Ontario, and are so famous all over the 
world for their stupendous size and magnificence as to render 
a description of them almost unnecessary. There are, how- 
ever, some objects of interest connected with a visit to 
these falls, which may be worth while pointing out to the 
attention of the tourists. The best view that can be 
obtained of the whole cataract is from the Canadian shore, 
at a point called Table Rock, and of the American Fall in 
particular, from the ferry. The American Fall, though 
nothing like the width of the Canadian, is six feet higher 
than the latter, having a descent of 164 feet. At Bath 
Island, which is connected with the mainland and Goat 
Island by a bridge, visitors register their names, and, by the 
payment of 25c., can visit all the islands without extra 
charge. A stone tower forty-five feet high has been erected 
on Terrapin Bridge, from the top of which a sj)lendid view 
of the foaming waters can be had. The Biddle Stairs are on 



174 WATERING PLACES. 

Goat Island, and have a descent of 180 feet in all. From 
the foot of these stairs there are three paths : one leads to 
Crescent, or Horseshoe Fall ; another, to the right, leads to 
the Cave of Winds ; and the third runs to the river below. 
Persons wishing to pass behind the sheet of water will find 
a guide who will furnish a suitable dress at Table Rock. 
The rapids above the falls, and the whirlpool below, are well 
worthy a visit, especially the former. 

There are several fine hotels at Niagara Falls for the 
accommodation of visitors : the International, the Cataract, 
near the American Fall, and the Clifton House on the 
Canada side, are the best. 

WHITE MOUNTAINS. 

From New York, via New York and New Haven and 
Connecticut River Railways ; also by way of Hudson 
River. 

The White Mountains are situated in Coos County, New 
Hampshire, and consists of a number of mountain peaks 
from four to six thousand feet in altitude, the highest of 
them being Mount Washington, which is 6,243 feet above 
the level of the sea, and possess the greatest attraction to 
tourists. Its ascent has lately become quite fashionable with 
visitors to the mountains. The " Notch " is a narrow gorge 
between two enormous cliffs, extending for a distrnce of tw^o 
miles. Its entrance is about twenty feet wide, and the 
mountain scenery, diversified by beautiful cascades falling 
over perpendicular rocks, is grand in the extreme. The 
principal hotels are Crawford's, the Glen House, and the 
Alpine House. 



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A Table of the Distances of the principle Watering 
Places in the United States from New York, may be found 
further on. 



175 
POST OFFICE, 

Corner of Cedar and Nassau Streets. 

MONEY ORDER DEPARTMENT, 

Entrance on Nassau Street, corner of Liberty. 
Office hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Regulations for Carriers' Department, Stations and City 

Delivery. 

There are Eight deliveries each day by carriers. 
Collections are made from each and every lamp-post box 
(585 in number) Nine times a day. 

On Sundays, but one collection will be made, at 3.15 p.m. 

U. S. Mail Stations. 
Open from 6.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. 

A, 100 Spring. H, Third Ave, n. East 58th. 

B, 382 Grand. J, Harsenville. 

C, 627 Hudson. K, East 86th, n. Third Ave. 

D, Bible h. L, 2277 Third Ave. 

E, 465 Eighth Ave. M, Carmansville. 
P, 342 Third Ave. N, Tubby Hook. 
G, 735 Seventh Ave. 

RATES OF POSTAGE. 

Notice. 

No letter will be sent from this office, to places within 
the United States, unless the postage is prepaid, by stamps. 

Stamps and stamped envelopes can be procured at the 
office of sale in the Post-office building, entrance at the north 
end of Nassau Street front, open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ; at 
the window on Nassau Street, at all the Stations, and also of 
authorized agents in different parts of the City. 

On Letters. 

The Inland Postage (which must be prepaid) upon single 
letters is 3 cents ; double letters, twice, and treble letters, 
treble these rates. 



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POST OFFICE. 



Every letter or parcel not exceeding half an ounce in 
weight is deemed a single letter, and every additional 
weight of half an ounce, or less, is charged with an additional 
single postage, prepaid by stamps. 

City letters must be prepaid by stamps at the rate of 
two cents tor each half ounce, or less, and two cents for 
each additional half ounce, whether delivered from the 
office or by the carriers. 

Advertised Letters are charged with one cent, in addi- 
tion to the regular postage. 



O71 Newspapers. 

Daily, per quarter 

Six times a week, per quarter 

Tri- Weekly, 

Semi-Weekly, 

Weekly, 

Transient papers, each 4 oz 

Monthly Magazines, 4 oz., per quar 

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THE NEW POST OFFICE. 



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This building, now in process of construction at the 
southern end of the City Hall Park, will, when completed, 
add another to the many magnificent structures that adorn 
the city. 

It will be constructed of granite, marble and Iron, at a 
cost of $3,500,000, which amount has been appropriated by 
Congress. 

The style of architecture is the pure French Renaissance. 
It will be three stories high, surmounted by a Mansard roof, 
marked by a centre pavilion four stories high. The pavilion 
in front will be 160 feet high, and the building facing the 
City Hall will be 320 feet in length. The first story will be 
22 feet high, composed of arched openings, supported upon 
square piers ; the second will be 18 feet high, and the third 
16. The style of the building is that of the Tuileries and the 
Hotel de Ville. The building will display the following 
statues : America, Commerce, Industry, Washington, Frank- 
lin, Justice, History, Peace, Strength, Truth, Genius of the 
Arts, Virtue, Honor, Liter.ature, Mechanics, Genius of Science, 
Agriculture, and Navigation. The public corridor will be 25 
feet wide, and 600 feet in length, entered from Broadway and 
Park Row. The building can be completed, it is claimed, in 
two years. Clocks are to be placed at various points around 
the building for the accommodation of the public. 



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178 BANKS 



The more prominent banks of New York include, the 
Bank of New York, corner of Wall and William streets, the 
Mechanics' Bank, the Merchants' Bank, the Manhattan, the 
Bank of Commerce, Nassau Bank, &c. The Banks of New 
York are daily becoming more important in an architectural 
point of view. 

The American Exchange Bank, 128 Broadway, corner of 
Liberty street, is a splendid building of Caen stone. 

The Bank of Commerce, in Nassau street, facing the Post- 
Office, is one of the finest marble edifices in the city. Its 
capital is ten millions of dollars. 

Duncan, Sherman & Co.'s Banking House is built of brown 
stone, and stands on the corner of Nassau and Pine streets ; 
it cost $150,000. Adjoining this is another splendid estab- 
lishment, — the Continental Bank 

The Bank of the Republic is situated at the corner of 
Broadway and Wall street ; it is a noble edifice, built of 
brown stone ; its entire cost is estimated at about $175,000. 
Its capital is $2,000,000. 

The Metropolitan is also built of brown stone, and is 
located at the corner of Pine street and Broadway ; its cost 
is stated at $100,000. 

The Bank of the Commonwealth, 15 Nassau street, is a 
beautiful brown stone structure of elegant proportions. 

The Bank of America is one of the old established banks, 
situated 46 Wall street. Its capital is $3,000,000. 

On the comer of Wall and William streets, is another 
fine edifice, the Bank of New York ; recently rebuilt with 
•brick and brown stone facings ; its capital is $2,000,000. 

The l>ank of North America, 44 Wall street, has a capital 
of $1,000,000. 

Broadway Bank, corner of Broadway and Park Place, is 
a massive brown-stone building ; its cost is stated at $127,000. 

The Park Bank, 214 and 217 Broadway, is a recent estab- 
lishment, with a capital of $2,000,000. 

j^he Phenix Bank, 45 Wall street. 

The Shoe and Leather Bank, corner of Broadway and 
Chambers street, has a capital of $1,000,000. 

The Union Bank, 34 Wall street, has a capital of 
$1,500,000. 



BANKS. 179 

The Importers and Traders Bank, 245 Broadway, has a 
capital of $1,500,000. 

The Pacific Bank has recently erected a fine marble edifice 
in Broadway, adjoining Brooks' building, corner of Grand 
street. 

The Manhattan Company, 40 Wall street, has a capital 
of $2,050,000. 

The Clearing House is at 72 Broadway. 

For a general list of the City Banks, the reader is referred 
to the New York Directory. 



SAVINGS BANKS. 

Among the excellent institutions of New York, may be 
mentioned the Savings Banks. The principal establishments 
are the following : 

Bank for Savings, 67 Bleecker street, is a beautiful marble 
edifice, the most elegant and spacious of its class in the city. 

Bowery Savings Bank, 130 Bowery, is a splendid brown 
stone building — one of the architectural ornaments of this 
portion of the city. 

Broadway Savings Bank is on the corner of Park Place. 

East River Savings Bank is situated 3 Chambers street. 

The Irvino;, 96 Warren street. 

The Greenwich, 73 Sixth Avenue. 

The Emip-rant Industrial, 51 Chambers street. 

The Mechanics and Traders', 283 Bowery. 

The Manhattan, 644 Broadway. 

The Dry Dock, 663 Fourth street. 

The Merchants' Clerks' Savings Bank, 516 Broadway. 

Seaman's Bank for Savings, 78 Wall. 

Sixpenny Savings Bank, Clinton Hall, Astor Place. 



180 
FOREIGN CONSULS IN NEW YORK. 



Argentine Republic. — E. F. Davison, 128 Pearl. 

Austria. — C. Boleslawski, 33 Broadway. 

Baden. — L. Schmidt, 68 Broad. 

Bavaria. — George H. Siemon, 85 Nassau. 

Belaium.— Charles Mali, 45 Worth. 

Bolwia.— J. M. Munoz, 63 Pine. 

Brazil. — Louis H. F. D'Aguiar, 13 Broadway. 

Chile.— Stephen Rogers, 249 W. 42d.^ 

Columbia. — Juan de Dios Restrepo, 25 William. 

Costa Rica. — A. C. Garsia, 19 Broad. 

Denmark.— C. T. Christensen, 112 Front; Henry Braem, 

V. C. 
Dominica. — D. A. De Lima, 23 William. 
Ecuador. — Nicholas R. Ansado, V. C, 7 Broadway. 
France. — Alex. Bellaigue de Bughas, Act. C. ; George Kobb, 

V. C, 4 Bowling gr. 
Great Britain. — E. M. Archibald; Pierrepont Edwards, V. 

C, 17 Broadway. 
Greece. — D. N. Botassi, 47 Exchange Place. 
Guatemala. — B. Blanco, 13 S. WilKam. 
Haiti. — C. A. Vanbokkelen, 28 Front. 
Hawaiian Islands.^ — S. U. F. Odell, 24 Beaver. 
Hesse Darmsiadt. — F. W. Keutgen, 58 Beaver. 
Honduras.— E. G. Squier, Res. Min. 135 E. 39th. 
Italy. — Ferdinando de Luca, A. P. Bajnotti, V. C, 7 B'way. 
Liberia.— H. M. Schieffelin, 42 Bible h. 
Mexico (Republic.) — Juan Navarro, 52 Exchange pi. 
Monaco. — H. Rouhaud, 4 Bowling gr. 
Netherlands. — H. C. Burlage ; J. E. Zimmerman, V. C, 45 

Exchange pi. 
North German Union. — Johannes Rosing ; F. W. Zach, V. C, 

117 Broadway. 
Norway. — C. Bors, 18 Exchange pi. 
Paraguay.— R. Mullowney, 91 Wall. 
Peru. — J. C. Tracy, 261 Broadway. 
Portugal. — Antonio M. da Cunha Pereira de Sotto Major; 

L. E. Amsinck, V. C, 148 Pearl. 



CONSULS. 181 

Russia. — R. Ostensacken, 52 Exchange pi. ; R. Schultz, V. 

C, 25 Old si. 
Salvador. — Jose Jermau Ribon, 63 Pine. 
Spain. — Hipolito de Uriarte ; F. Granados, V. C, 29 BVay. 
Sweden. — C. Bors, 18 Exchange pi. 
Switzerland. — Louis P. de Luze, 23 John. 
Turkey. — C. Oscanyan, 65 Broadway. 
Uruguay. — Edwin C. B. Garsia, 19 Broad. 
Venezuela. — T. Hernandez, 121 Front. 
Wurtemberg. — Leopold von Bierwirth, 69 Pine. 



OMNIBUSES AND RAIL-CARS. 

The omnibus lines are eight in number, comprising 204 
vehicles, which f^verage about ten down and as many up 
trips daily, Besides these stages there are fourteen lines of 
commodious city cars, drawn by horses or mules along rails 
laid on the streets. The fare is only 5 cents. They run as 
follows : 

Harlem Co.'s City Cars — From Park Row to Centre St., 
through Centre to Grand, Grand to Bowery, up Bowery to 
Fourth Avenue and Forty-second Street. 

Second Avenue Cars— From Peck Slip, through Pearl, 
Chatham, Bowery. Grand, and Allen Streets, First Avenue, 
East Twenty-third Street and Second Avenue, to Harlem. 

Third Avenue Railroad — Park Row, Bowery, Third 
Avenue, to Yorkville. 

Sixth Avenue Railroad — Vesey, through Church and 
Chambers Streets, West Broadway, Canal, Varick, and Car- 
mine Streets, Sixth Avenue to Fifty-ninth Street. 

Seventh Avenue Railroad — From corner of Broadway 
and Barclay Street, through Church, Greene, University 
Place, Broadway, Forty-third and Seventh Avenue to Fifty- 
ninth Street. There is also a branch starting-place from 
•corner of Broadway and Broome Street. 

Eighth Avenue Railroad — Vesey, through Church Cham- 
bers, West Broadway, Canal, Hudson Streets, and Eighth 
Avenue to West Fifty-ninth Street. 

Ninth Avenue Railroad — B'dway, corner of Fulton, 



182 OMNIBUSES AND RAIL-CARS. 

through Church, Chambers, West Broadway, Canal, Green- 
wich, and Ninth Avenue to Fifty-ninth Street. 

Central Park, North and East River Railroad — Eastern 
Division — From South Ferry, foot of Whitehall Street, 
through Front, Water, and South Streets, to Grand Street 
Ferry ; thence through Grand, Mangin, Corlears and Hous- 
ton Streets to Avenues D and A ; thence through Four- 
teenth Street to First Avenue, and through First Avenue 
and Fifty-ninth Street to the Fifth Avenue entrance of the 
Central Park. 

Central Park, North and East River Railroad — Western 
Division — From South Ferry, foot of Whitehall Street, 
through Whitehall and State Streets, Battery Place, West 
Street, Tenth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, to Fifth Ave- 
nue entrance of Central Park. 

Broadway and Grand Street Ferry Railroad — From 
junction of Broadway and Canal Street, through New Canal 
Street, East Broadway and Grand Street, to Grand Street 
Ferry. 

Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad — From junc- 
tion of Broadway and Barclay Street, through Barclay, 
Church, Greene and Eighth Streets, University Place, Broad- 
way, Seventh Avenue, and Fifty-ninth Street. — Branch from 
junction of Broadway and Broome Street, through Broome, 
Greene, Eighth Streets, University Place, Broadway, Seventh 
Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. Return Route — From cor- 
ner of Fifty-ninth Street and Seventh Avenue, through 
Seventh Avenue, Broadway, University Place, Eighth Street, 
Wooster Street (Branch Road from Wooster through 
Broome Street to Broadway), Canal Street, West Broadway, 
Barclay Street to Broadway. 

Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad — 
Forty- second Street and Eleventh Avenue, along Forty- 
second to Tenth Avenue, through Tenth Avenue to Thirty- 
fourth street, Broadway, Twenty-third street. Fourth ave- 
nue, Fourteenth street, Avenue A, Houston street. Cannon 
street, Grand street to Grand street ferry. ^ Return Route 
— From Grand street ferry to Goerck street, through Goerck, 
Houston and Second streets, Avenue A, Fourteenth street, 
Fourth Avenue, Twenty-third street, Broadway, Thirty- 
fourth street, Tenth avenue to Forty-second street ferry. 



OMNIBUSES AND RAIL-CARS. 183 

East Broadway and Dry Dock Railroad — From junction 
of Park row and Broadway, through Park row, Chatham 
street, Chatham square, East Br*, adway, Grand street, 
Goerck, Houston, to Avenue D, thence through Avenue D to 
Dry Dock. Ueturn Route : From Dry Dock, through 
Avenue D, Eighth, Lewis, Grand streets, East Broadway, 
Chatham square, Chatham street, Park row to Broadway. 

Fourteenth street and Fulton Ferry Railroad — From foot 
of Fourteenth street, Nojth River, through Hudson, Bleecker, 
Crosby, Howard, Elm, Reade, Bentre, Beekman, and South 
streets, to Fulton street ; and return through Fulton, William 
and Ann streets to Park row, and then to Fourteenth street 
along the route above mentioned. 

Grand-street Feny and Courtlandt-street Ferry Railroad 
— From Grand-street Ferry through Grand street, East 
Broadway, Walker, Greenwich, and Courtiandt streets to the 
ferry. 

For the several stage and omnibus routes throughout the 
city, see the New York Directory. Most of them have their 
routes designated on the outside of the vehicle. A large 
proportion of them pass up and down Broadway almost 
incessantly. 



184 FERRIES 



Brooklyn — Catherine Slip to Main Street. From 5 a. m. 
to 9 p. M., every ten minutes ; from 9 p. m. to 12 a. m., 
every twenty minutes. 

Brooklyn — Foot Fulton Street, N. Y., to Fulton Street, 
Brooklyn. From 3 a. m. to 12 p.m., every five minutes; 
from 12 p. M. to 3 a. m., every fifteen minutes. 

Brooklvn — Foot Jackson to Hudson Avenue. From 5 
A. M. to 10 P. M., every fifteen minutes. 

Brooklyn (E. D.) — Foot Pi^oosevelt Street to South Seventh 
Street. From 5 a, m. to 8 p. m., every ten minutes. 

Brooklyn — Foot Wall to Montague Street. From 5 a.m. 
to 8 p. M., every ten minutes ; from 8 p. m. to midnight, every 
twenty minutes. 

. Brooklyn — Foot Whitehall to Atlantic Street. From 
5 A. M. to 11 p. M., every 12 minutes ; from 11 p. m. to 5 a.m., 
every half hour. 

Brooklyn (E. D.)— Foot Grand Street, N. Y., to Grand 
Street, Brooklyn, and to Division Avenue. 

Brooklyn (E. D.) — Foot E. Houston to Grand Street. 
Bull's Ferry and Fort Lee— Pier No. 51 N. R. 
Greenpoint — Foot Tenth and foot East Twenty-third. 
From 6 a. m. to 9 p. m., every fifteen minutes. 

Hamilton Avenue — Foot Whitehall to Atlantic Dock. 
From 7 a. m. to' 6 p. m., every ten minutes ; from 6 p. m. to 
12 a. m., every fifteen minutes. 

Hoboken— Foot Barclay. From 6 a.m. to 71 p.m., every 
fifteen minutes; from 7^ p. m. to 12 p. m., every half hour, 
from 12 p. m. to 4 a. m., every hour ; from 4 to 6 a. m., every 
half hour. 

Hoboken — Foot Canal. From 5^ a. m, to 9 p. m., every 
half hour. 

Hunter's Point — Foot East Thirty-fourth Street. From 
4^^ A. M. to 12 p. m., every fifteen minutes. Fare 4 cents. 

Hunter's Point — James Slip to Ferry street, every half 
hour. 

Jersey City — Foot Courtlandt to Montgomery street; 
from 5 a. m. to 7i p. m., every ten minutes ; from 7i p. m. 
to 12 p. m., every fifteen minutes; from 12 p. m. to 3 a. m., 
every thirty minutes. 



FERRIES. 185 

Jersey City — Foot Desbrosses to Excliange Place; from 
5 a. m. to 10 p. m., every fifteen minutes ; from 10 p. m. to 
■5 a. m,, every thirty minutes. 

Mott Haven — Pier 24, E. R. ; boats leave at 7, 8, 9.15 
and 11.30 a. m., 1.15, 3.15, 4.15, 5.15, 6.15 p. m. ; from foot 
of Eighth street, fifteen minutes later. 

Pavonia— Foot Chambers, N. R., to Long Dock; from 
1 a. m. to 7 p. m., every fifteen minutes; from 7 p. m. to 1 
a. m., every half hour. 

Staten Island (New Brighton, Port Richmond, and Snug 
Harbor)— Pier 19, N. R. 

Staten Island (Quarantine, Stapleton, and Vanderbilt's 
Landing)— Foot Whitehall ; from 6 a. m. to 7 p. m., every 
hour. The 7 and 9 a. m. and 1, 4, and 6 p. m., connect 
with the trains of the Staten Island Railroad. 

Weehawken — Foot West Forty-second ; from 7 a. m. to 
9 p. m., every twenty minutes. 

Astoria Ferry — Foot East Ninety-second ; boats run. 
«very fifteen minutes. 



186 

RAILROAD COMPANIES AND STATIONS 



Camden & Amboy, Pier 1 N. R. : — Passengers are taken 
by steamboat to S. Amboy. and thence by railroad to Phila- 
delphia. 

Central (of N. J.), 119 Liberty :— Capital, $15,000,000; 
John T.Johnson, Pres. ; Samuel Knox, Treasurer and Secre- 
tary. Passengers leave foot Liberty street. 

Erie Railway, Eighth avenue corner West 23d : — Jay 
Gould, President ; H. N. Otis, Secretary ; L. D. Rucker, 
superintendent. Depots foot of 2od street, N. R., and foot of 
Chambers street. 

Fall River and Boston, Pier 30 N. R. Passengers leave 
by steamboats (touching at Newport) to Fall River, where 
the R. R. commences. 

Flushing and North Side, foot James slip, and foot East 
34th : — John J. Locke, president ; H. C. Poppenhusen, trea- 
surer. 

Hudson River, West 30th corner Tenth avenue, and Grand 
Central Depot: — C. Vanderbilt, president; C. C. Clarke, 
treasurer ; A. Schell, secretary ; C. H. Kendrick, general 
ticket agent. Capital, $27,600,000. 

Long Island: — 0. Charlick, president; L. D. Barton, 
superintendent. Depot, James slip. 

New Jersey Railroad and Transport Company, 111 
Liberty, foot Desbrosses and foot Cortlandt: — A. L. Dennis, 
president ; F. W. Rankin, secretary ; H. J. Southmayd, trea- 
surer. Capital, ^6, 250, 000. Passengers cross the North 
River to Jersey City by the ferry foot Cortlandt and foot 
Debrosses streets. 

New York and Harlem, Fourth avenue corner East 4 2d, 
Grand Central Depot : — C. Vanderbilt, president ; C. Vander- 
bilt, jr., treasurer ; R. J. Niven, secretary. Capital, $8, 
000,000. 

New York and New Haven, Fourth avenue corner East 
42d, GrandCentrall^epot:— Capital, $6,750,000; Par, $100. 
William D. Bishop, president; John T. Shelton, treasurer; 
E. J. Sanford, secretary; James H. Hoyt, superintendent. 



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THEIR DISTANCES FROM NEW YORK. 

Avon Springs, N. Y. 
Atlantic City, N. J. 
Bedford Springs, Pa 
Cape May, N. J. 
Columbia Springs, N. Y. 
Catskill Mountains, N. Y. 
Clarendon Springs, Yt. 
Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 
Lebanon Springs, N. Y. 
Lake George, N. Y. 
Lake Champlain, N. Y. 
Lake Mahopac, N. Y. 
Lake Memphremagog, Vt 
Long Branch, N. J. . 
Mount Vernon, Va. . 
Mount Holyoke, Mass. 
Mammoth Cave, Ky. 
Newport, R. I. . 
Niagara Falls, N. Y. . 
Natural Bridge, Va. 
Sharon Springs, N. Y. 
Saratoga Springs, N, Y. 
Trenton Falls, N. J. 
White Mountains, N. H. 
West Point, N. Y. . 
White Sulphur Springs, Va. 



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